Every so often extraordinary men emerge. Robert MacKenzie was such a man doing more than most to stop Communism.

As the nation gears up to celebrate its 250th birthday, one soldier who made American independence possible is getting his ...

Fewer than fifty thousand American World War II veterans remain alive today. These veterans are the last living links to a ...

Across New England, a writer traveled down dirt paths and into historic homes to find the forgotten stories of the enslaved ...

The Medal of Honor should transcend politics and prejudice. For some, America's painful past meant recognition come too late.

Leutnant Friedrich Lengfeld served as a German company commander during the Battle of Hurtgen Forest in WWII. (1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry) During the bloody battle for Hurtgen Forest in late 1944, a ...

The U.S. Colored Troops were among the first to arrive in Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation—yet their story has ...

Gen. John Pershing would officially designate Gunther as the last American soldier killed in World War I. He was one of approximately 2,750 men who died that morning — casualties of the six-hour ...

When visitors and local researchers in the Netherlands realized earlier last month that two panels honoring Black American soldiers who helped liberate Europe from the Nazis had disappeared from the U ...

Thanks to DNA, relatives of an American Revolutionary War soldier now know the name of their long-lost cousin who died in 1780 at the Battle of Camden.