Historically, Mare Island conjures thoughts of colossal U.S. Navy ships steaming out into the San Pablo Bay for their maiden ...

The Arab Spring was a turning point in history that didn’t turn. Unity in opposition to dictatorship is pushing water ...

The well-worn book of hymns belonged to one of American ... During the Civil War, Tubman served with the Union Army as a rifle-toting scout and spy. In June 1863, she helped lead a gunboat raid ...

The Cruiser Olympia served in the Spanish-American War, while the Becuna is a Cold War ... it’s an interactive experience for visitors. The USS Cairo is a Civil War-era ironclad gunboat, now displayed ...

The colonial victory against the British in the American Revolutionary War was far from a predetermined outcome. In addition ...

While metal detecting for Civil War relics, the History Seekers uncovered something truly extraordinary—a rare Confederate spy weapon known as a coal torpedo, believed to be the same type used in the ...

Two U.S. Navy PT boat captains awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II were both cases in point: Lt. Cmdr. John Bulkeley ...

In the matter of war, the American language creates its own fog ... or the imminent threat of force (as in the “gunboat diplomacy” of the 1850s), to achieve national ends.

While the White House wages a trade war on behalf of US manufacturing, the largest and most important part of the American economy — one that has a trade surplus, not a gap — is under threat.

The second Sudanese civil war from 1983 to 2005 killed an estimated two million people, with widespread documentation of famine and atrocities. In July 2011, Sudan’s southern territory seceded ...

One overarching message is the need for a change in the population’s mentality to become war ready ... cover as you would during an air raid. Civil defense shelters provide the best protection.” ...

Trade, war, and diplomacy have been inextricably linked ... Rather, an unwritten promise of the dollar is the support of American military power.[iii] This ranges from simple maritime patrols ...