After more than 80 years, Army veteran Willibald Bianchi was properly identified using advanced forensic science. Next May, ...

On Christmas day 1863, as his son recovered from his wounds, Henry penned the poem "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day," with ...

The Nutcracker ballet serves forward a swirl of the chaos of the holiday season.

The partially completed Catholic Church, poised as the fort to be used in defense of the futilely attempted Confederate ...

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Little known outside of New Mexico, the Pueblo Revolt “was, in effect, the first American Revolution with far-reaching ...

The documentary "The 100th, Seeds of Aloha" aims to honor the legacy of these soldiers and their contributions to both ...

Today, we commemorate the 81st anniversary of the legendary Battle of the Bulge—the largest and deadliest battle fought by American forces in the Second ...

Indiana state Senator Mike Gaskill, a Pendleton Republican, declared on Thursday that a "second civil war has already started" in the United States, as he urged his colleagues to back an ultimately ...

Around 620,000 men died during the Civil War — roughly two percent of the United States' population at the time. After the battle of Cold Harbor in the spring of 1864, Ulysses S. Grant was called a ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The US military has killed scores of people — 83 and counting — in unprecedented ...

More than 80 people have now been killed by U.S. strikes on suspected drug boats. There are growing questions about an order to kill two of those people — whether it amounts to a war crime. Here’s ...