Early in the Civil War, two ironclad ships faced off in a battle that would change naval warfare forever. What made ironclad ...

Pittsburgh author Edda Fields-Black won the Pulitzer Prize this week for “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War.” ...

Mare Island was one of only two public shipyards in America that built nuclear submarines during the Cold War. It hosted an ...

Every year, the books chosen for Pulitzer Prizes add up to a specially curated reading list, and the winners of the 2025 ...

Edda Fields-Black wanted to make her historical account of a Union Army raid led by Harriet Tubman on southern plantations and rice fields as authentic as ...

In 1949, the victory of the Chinese Civil War occurred. In the following decades ... The pressure on Panama is reminiscent of Theodore Roosevelt's gunboat policy over a hundred years ago.

Israeli bombardment across the Gaza Strip killed over 153 people and wounded 459 others in just the past day, according to the Palestinian health authority on Saturday. The death toll from Israel's ...

The first ship built was the USS Saginaw in 1859, a paddle-wheel gunboat used in the Civil War to guard against Confederate marauders. Admiral Farragut assumed control in these early years with ...

An underdressed reporter journeys across icy, barren Greenland—and into Trump’s bored, nineteenth-century brain.

Intelligence gathered by Allied commando raids during World War Two in Sark helped the liberation of the Channel Islands from ...