I remember having air raid drills when I was in elementary school during the Cold War. An alarm would go off, and we literally got under our desks to protect ourselves. There were fallout shelters ...

The War of 1812, which lasted until 1815, once again pitted the United States against Great Britain. The conflict was driven by maritime disputes, including the British practice of impressment ...

In a letter to William Henry Harrison (then the governor of the Indiana Territory ... Even before the War of 1812 began, conflict was well underway in the increasingly dense settlements along ...

World Press Photo has cast fresh doubt over the authorship of “The Terror of War,” a picture better known as “Napalm Girl,” amid growing debate about one of ...

An Indiana man convicted in the fatal shooting of a police officer in 2000 was executed Tuesday by lethal injection in the state’s second execution in 15 years. Benjamin Ritchie, 45, had been on ...

In August 1814, amid the War of 1812, British troops burned the Executive Mansion, the Capitol — including the library — and other public buildings in Washington. The second-ever Librarian of ...

SOME OF THESE VETERANS WERE BORN RIGHT HERE IN IOWA, BUT THERE ARE OTHERS WHO CAME FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY, LIKE NEW YORK, INDIANA AND ... General Society of the War of 1812, the Daughters of ...

The Indiana State Police and Adams County Sheriff's Department investigated the murder. Armstrong was a World War I veteran and well-known local banjo player. Everett Armstrong was found dead in ...

China's State Council Information Office on Tuesday unveiled an emblem commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and ...