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A labyrinth of rocky walls, hills, crags, forests, and tunnels make up Peleliu Island. The Japanese had fortified the island with formidable defenses. Japanese forces were able to move covertly…

The historic fort that supports the Statue of Liberty and its pedestal will be fixed up with the help of a $22 million construction contract from the National Park Service.…

One may picture the infamous and bloody Western Italian Front trenches while picturing the First World War. Or possibly the legendary dogfights conducted between daring pilots in flimsy planes when…

Holocaust: A new Ken Burns documentary examines the U.S.’s convoluted and terrible response to Nazism and Jewish immigrants.

December 15, 1836, United States Patents had been reduced to ash. This included approximately 10,000 United States patents in total, which represented every invention that had been registered with the government since 1790.

Kostya Kennedy’s biography of Jackie Robinson, one of baseball’s and America’s most important figures, The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson, is incisive, extensively detailed, and distinctive. Read a sample below.…

For more than two centuries, the United States Postal Service (USPS) has been the primary method of sending point-to-point messages for more over 2 centuries

History of California’s inmate firefighting: Since WWII, California has relied on inmates to combat fires. Prisoners must meet security criteria and undergo two weeks of training to enter the Conservation Camp Program.

It was in Richmond, Virginia, one hundred years ago that the Edgar Allan Poe Museum was established. Poe’s pocket watch, which he wore while writing his short story “The Tell-Tale…

Fort Wadsworth is a oldest military installations in the USA. It encompassed 226 acres on the northeastern side of Staten Island, on the Narrows of New York Harbor, was fortified…