Cruisers predate destroyers by 20 years. Cruisers are larger than destroyers and built for attacking while destroyers serve ...

For over 75 years, the Republic and People’s Republic of China have confronted each other across the Taiwan Strait, a highly contested sea passage separating the two nations ...

From the Barrier Islands to the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, here's where to see some of the best views in.

Fort A.P. Hill was once named after a Confederate general. Now it’s named after three Union soldiers whose surnames are ...

However, if one hears the phrase "the Civil War," most would immediately associate it with the American Civil War. This was one of the most defining and brutal periods ever witnessed in the ...

It’ll be the centerpiece of the museum's Revolutionary War ... the gunboat played a significant role in shaping America. “If it is what we think it was, it was used in the American Revolution ...

Peter Fix, an associate research scientist in the Department of Anthropology at Texas A&M, stands near pieces of a Revolutionary War gunboat on Tuesday, May 20, being rebuilt at the museum in Albany.

The Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865, was the deadliest conflict in American history. It erupted over deeply entrenched divisions over slavery, states’ rights and the preservation of the Union.

New York State Museum In 2010, construction crews working in Lower Manhattan found the remains of a Revolutionary War-era gunboat ... history of the rare, American-built gunboat.

An academic historian had written about her, and she was sometimes included in lists of the moonlight-and-magnolia-style of female civil war spies, the kind historians don’t take too seriously.

Because of what they sacrificed for me, the heroes who found rest in this glen were black soldiers who fought in the Civil War, 12 of them and their families. Local history has it the cemetery ...