In “Splendid Liberators,” Joe Jackson presents the U.S. wars in Cuba and the Philippines as part of a misguided project to ...

In 1862, during America’s Civil War, the U.S. Congress and Department of the Navy began naming combat ships after the nation’s states. The USS Maine is named after America’s 23rd state. The over 324 ...

Oct. 13, 2025 , is a milestone for sailors past and present as the U.S. Navy celebrates its 250th birthday. From battling ...

This is a photo of the new 1941 Mack fire engine of the Altoona Pennsylvania Railroad Fire Department sitting on the Eighth ...

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The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library is rising from the rugged Badlands of western North Dakota, where the 26th ...

The 26th U.S. president is both lauded as a conservationist and condemned as a big-game hunter. A new book recounts the ...

On October 14, 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt was shot in downtown Milwaukee. Bleeding but undeterred, the Progressive “Bull Moose” candidate ...

"It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose!" On 1912, Theodore Roosevelt survived an assassination attempt and went on to ...