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 between battle zones thanks to a network of more than 500 caves and tunnels. It was very important that Navy UDTs, also known as “frogmen,” … Read more
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. The Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA), which provides funding for the project, will allow it to make improvements to drainage and safety. These changes will … Read more
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 aviation was just getting started. However, due to the war’s global scope, fighting took place on a large scale anywhere from the Middle East’s sweltering … Read more
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. The NAACP began giving the Spingarn Medal in 1915, its sixth year. The medal was created by J. E. Spingarn, then chairman of the NAACP … Read more
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 Heart” just before he moved to New York City, where he spent his final years, was given as a gift to the museum in honor … Read more
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 by the British in 1779, and was the most significant defensive position for the rest of the Revolutionary War. Since roughly the time of World … Read more