T he death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the first day of the Iran war generated hope that the regime change ...

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Iraq is getting caught in the crossfire of the Iran war as the only country facing strikes from both sides ...

The USS "Monitor" was the U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship. The vessel, which sank off of North Carolina in 1862, ...

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We are more than a week into the largest war the region has seen in years, without a clear sense of why or for how long.

Hidden in a small family cemetery in the Georgia woods is the grave of Benjamin Williams, believed to be the youngest soldier of the American Civil War. Born in 1854, he reportedly joined the ...

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria says Israel wants to destroy the Islamic Republic in every sense, but the U.S. has major interests for peace and stability in the region. Fareed tells Anderson Cooper an Iran that ...

In her new book, Darkology, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes writes about how blackface and minstrel shows became one of the most popular forms of entertainment in 19th- and 20th-century America.

There are military artifacts with stories behind them across the state, but few are as famous as the two Civil War-era cannons that, until 2023, when they were "temporarily" relocated, could be seen ...

A major US-Israel military campaign against Iran, dubbed Operation Epic Fury, has escalated into a broad regional conflict ...

As the conflict entered its second week, Zakaria said the most dangerous element of the war lies in the differing objectives of the two main actors conducting it - Israel and the United States ...

Three-dimensional images and digital illustrations offer a detailed new look at the USS Monitor, an important Civil War ship that sank more than 160 years ago and has since become a reef.