When the Confederacy captured the Ironclad uss Indianola during the American Civil War, the Union's Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter thought up a ruse to make sure it wouldn't be salvaged and used ...

Nature has taken its course at the Wolf’s Lair. There are stalactites hanging from the ceiling in the windowless SS command post. A family of trees grows straight from the stone inside Martin ...

One of the first waves of Marines to hit the beach hug the ground as they land on Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945. (INP pool/AP) On Oct. 5, 1945, President Harry S. Truman placed the Medal of Honor around ...

MONROE, Tenn. (WTVF) — You never know what you'll find going through the family storage. A man in Monroe knows that well. A little sorting led to a discovery connected to US history. This time of year ...

Remember Tilly Norwood? That totally-not-human AI actor that some people want to normalize at the expense of actual human actors? Well, Tilly’s creator, Eline van der Velden, is now making a shortform ...

Dwight David Eisenhower was born on Oct. 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas 135-years ago. His family later relocated to Kansas. His path from a small-town in Kansas to Supreme Allied Commander in Europe ...

Writing in Foreign Affairs on Oct. 15, Max Boot argues that “Trump and his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, are engaged in a far-reaching assault on the apolitical professionalism that has made the ...

Can you chip in? As an independent nonprofit, the Internet Archive is fighting for universal access to quality information. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, ...

Each Veterans Day honors the service and sacrifice of the men and women who have served, but for many who return home with life-changing injuries, the work of rebuilding never really ends. Through ...

Terry Kovel and Kim Kovel [email protected] Nov 8, 2025 Nov 8, 2025 Collectors seek out military antiques to preserve veterans’ stories and honor historic heroes. Civil War drums are some ...