President Donald Trump signs an executive order renaming the Department of Defense as the Department of War as Defense ...

Maj. Per Scholander, a Swedish-born physiologist, biologist and botanist, mounted a rescue attempt that bought the survivors ...

Commissioned in August 1943, the Essex-class carrier USS Intrepid fought across the Pacific, surviving a torpedo at Truk and multiple kamikaze strikes while launching raids from the Marshalls to ...

Our first in-house map was produced during World War I. By the Second World War, the White House was asking for them by name.

Minh-Thu Pham of Project Starling, a group that supports multilateral co-operation, says the danger is less that the UN goes ...

In 1945, a young American officer was killed in China—his death seen as the opening shot of the Cold War. His story reveals ...

CHIP JACOBS, WRITER: It's hard for us to imagine what it was like that day in July 1943. It appeared quite suddenly. CHRISTOPHER WELLS, HISTORIAN: Thick, dark, silvery blue clouds descended over the ...

While 1991 is often given as the end of the Cold War, the truth is that the Cold War never ended; it just paused before ...

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved an amendment from Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) directing federal investigators to ...

April Fool's Day has come early. Donald Trump and Field Marshal Pete Hegseth have renamed the Department of Defense to the ...

Though it was canceled in 1946, the Bell D-35 legacy endures in aviation history as a bridge to modern interceptors.