Among the millions of World War II veterans were multiple future U.S. presidents. Some only narrowly survived the experience.

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

By Lib Campbell In the aftermath of WWII, the United States was recognized as a global leader and a reliable neighbor in the rebuilding of Europe through the Marshall Plan. We were the good guys. We ...

Divers recently discovered the wreck of a German submarine and the Royal Navy Q-ship that sank it in February 1917 ...

In the aftermath of World War II, U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall drew up the Marshall Plan, which supplied billions of dollars to rebuild the large swaths of Europe destroyed in the war ...

In 1782, as the Revolutionary War was winding down and peace talks were happening in Paris, Gen. George Washington came up ...

Villanova coach Ed Geisz engaged in a heroic act during World War II, leading to General George Patton handing Geisz the ...

"In the face of the gravest threats to U.S. national security interests since World War II ... have done so with great humility – from George Marshall harnessing American enterprise and Atlantic ...

But on January 20, within hours of his inauguration, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that froze foreign aid.

George Armitage, who co-wrote and directed the Alec Baldwin-starring Miami Blues and helmed another 1990s black comedy, ...

Negotiations aimed at freezing the conflict could finally put an end to the fighting – and lay the foundation for a new world ...