Military History

Formed in 1916, the U.S. Army 31st Infantry Regiment--known as the Polar Bears--has fought in virtually every war in modern American history. Th...

On August 2, 1934, Hitler required all members of Germany's re-emerging military to take an oath of allegiance to his regime. As the war progressed...

In April 1917, Congress approved President Woodrow Wilson's request to declare war on the Central Powers propelling the United States into the Euro...

In World War I, 104 African American doctors joined the United States Army to care for the 40,000 men of the 92nd and 93rd Divisions, the Army's...

During World War II Nathalie Lily Sergueiew, a woman of mystery, confidently seduced the German Intelligence Service into employing her as a spy...

This is the first detailed account of the 5,000 black troops who were reluctantly sent north by the United States Army during World War II to he...

Despite the plethora of books about the Civil War, the origins of many of the placenames associated with the conflict remain a mystery. This gaz...

James Claude Beasley tells his personal story of service in the US Navy during World War II. Born in 1924 he was a typical teenager in the 1940s, a...

With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Kiffin Yates Rockwell, from Asheville, North Carolina, volunteered to fight for France. Initial...

John Harrison Surratt, Jr., was a courier for the Confederate Secret Service and the only one of John Wilkes Booth's co-conspirators in the Lincoln...

Science fiction and the United States military often inhabit the same imaginative space. Weapons technology has taken inspiration from science f...

In its list of the Top 10 Badass Marines, Leatherneck magazine declared that Major George W. Hamilton never asked anyone to do anything he wasn'...

The northern part of Loudoun County was a Unionist enclave in Confederate Virginia that remained a contested battleground for armies and faction...

This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population. ...

During the War Between the States, Davidson County, North Carolina, sent nearly 2,000 men into service with the infantry, cavalry, artillery, na...

The urbanization of warfare has necessitated the kind of precision targeting that only small arms can deliver. Weapons not often seen on the battle...

Normandy, Flanders Field and other overseas cemeteries of the American Battle Monument Commission (ABMC) are well known. However, lesser-known bu...

During the Civil War, the outcome of many a battle or campaign hinged on the proper wording, dissemination and interpretation of battlefield ord...

At the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, the colonies faced the daunting task of creating the first American army, and its requisite ...

During World War II, Guam was the only American territory where Japan administered the occupied local people. Organic integration was the purpos...

The winter of 1862-63 found Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Ambrose Burnside's Army of the Potomac at a standoff along the Rappaha...

On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to a crowd gathered outside the Pennsylvania State House. It was engrossed on ve...

From West Point to Fort Donelson, General Charles Ferguson Smith was a soldier's soldier. He served at the U.S. Military Academy from 1829 to 18...

This rereading of the history of American westward expansion examines the destruction of Native American cultures as a successful campaign of co...

In 1845, sparsely populated Florida had been admitted to the United States along with Iowa in an ill-fated attempt to keep the balance between slav...

Creating a guerrilla movement to fight the Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1942-1945) presented Colonel Wendell Fertig with some formidable...

During World War II, the Solomon Islands became the scene of a titanic struggle between Allied and Japanese forces. After their victory on Guada...

Originally constructed in the 18th century as a military barracks by Austrian Emperor Joseph II, Theresienstadt (now Terezin) was used as a ghet...

Virginia played an important role during World War I, supplying the Allied forces with food, horses and steel in 1915 and 1916. After America en...

The award of a military decoration does not define valor--it only recognizes it. Many acts of notable courage and self-sacrifice occur on the ba...

Both before and during World War II, the Nazis curtailed the rights of Jewish and communist doctors living in countries they controlled. Some of th...

Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous spies of the Cold War era, a member of the infamous Cambridge Five spy ring, yet the extent of thi...

Take charge of Operation Barbarossa and drive towards Moscow or command the steadfast defenders of the Soviet Union. From the early battles for Len...