From Pearl Harbor to Windtalkers, these are the worst war movies released over the last 50 years, genuine disservices to ...
Are military leaders fired in the middle of a war? Often, yes, but extreme circumstances are required to get to ...
The 145th Pennsylvania Regiment, primarily from Erie County, was known as a "tough luck" unit during the Civil War. Terry Rensel, an Erie native, will speak about the regiment's experience at the ...
A naval ship honoring a former South Carolinian who escaped slavery by sailing through Charleston Harbor and served as the first Black captain in the U.S. Navy has apparently evaded a reported list of ...
MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) - Vermont historians have their eyes on a historic painting up for auction this weekend, and the possible chance to bring it home to the Green Mountains. Vermont’s Statehouse is ...
SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Spotsylvania County obtained artifacts from the Civil War’s Battle of Chancellorsville to display in museum near the battlefield after the renaming of a Navy ship by ...
`Fighting Joe” Hooker had mapped out a brilliant military strategy. He’d deceived the enemy into leaving a gap in its defenses, collected superior intelligence on his opponent’s whereabouts and ...
The US Navy is renaming two of its vessels as part of ongoing efforts to cut ties with Confederate history. The former USNS Maury, an oceanographic survey ship, has been re-named in honor of Marie ...
One night in 1862, as the Civil War raged, an enslaved mariner named Robert Smalls seized an opportunity. When the enlisted crew of a Confederate steamer disembarked for a night of carousing in ...