In a mere two months, soldiers learned how to load and fire a musket quicker and more efficiently, and were introduced to the bayonet, allowing them to engage more successfully when in close combat ...

How the most divided period in the history of U.S. democracy – the mid-1800s – coincided with a sudden boom in new ...

The 250th anniversary of the American Revolution will be celebrated in several communities that received funding from a state ...

Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will present a special one-hour, ranger-led, 1.2-mile hike exploring the ...

Iran cannot risk sparking an all-out war with a technologically superior adversary backed by global superpower – the US; but ...

A new framework of the fighting was made clear by large overnight blasts in the southern suburbs of Beirut, where Hezbollah ...

The Liberty Trail and other historic sites in the Charleston area embrace technology to help history come alive.

The article highlights five of the most outstanding and revolutionary service rifles ever used by the United States military. It begins with the Kentucky Long Rifle, a precise muzzle-loader essential ...

A brief ceremony was held Sept. 28 to rededicate the grave of DAR member Margaret Leland Crocker and pay honor to a buried ...

The United Nations Security Council has held an emergency meeting to address the spiraling conflict in the Middle East ...

Iran launched almost 200 missiles at Israel, though Israeli authorities said there were no injuries and scattered damage and ...

Israel’s apparently impending ground incursion into Lebanon will drive home a new strategic reality of a year of war — the ...