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

Some chapters in history read like full-blown thrillers. Moments where world leaders stared down disaster and a single ...

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

Abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who has ties to S.C., restored to National Park Service webpage for Underground Railroad after ...

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 ...

Yet China is our biggest export market, and we stand to become collateral damage if serious harm is done by our good friends ...

A decade before Lewis and Clark, André Michaux wanted to explore the American continent ... struggling with infighting and sliding toward civil war. France had declared war on Austria in the ...

FEBRUARY 25, 2021 — There are close to 50 books on African American abolitionist ... Although the new film “Harriet” touched briefly on her Civil War service, most people know very little about her ...

Every American schoolkid learns how the federal ... cited an instance where Thomas Jefferson declined to spend $50,000 on gunboats for the Mississippi River that Congress had appropriated.

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 ...

Yet China is our biggest export market, and we stand to become collateral damage if serious harm is done by our good friends ...