82 Facts For Your Daily Dose Of Useless Yet Fascinating Knowledge (New Pics)

September is the perfect time to learn something new. Why, you ask? Well, the start of a new academic year often motivates ...
Concord Monitor

Vintage Views: Proposed national cemetery in Concord

There are times I venture into our local cemeteries and spend time reading. It is not a novel or a newspaper that I read, but words engraved in granite, slate and marble. Words that date back ...

Trump pastor Mark Burns quietly became one of his key diplomats. Issues at home still haunt him.

South Carolina pastor Mark Burns quietly became a key Trump diplomat to countries like Ukraine and South Korea. He left ...
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8 War of 1812 battlefields where Canada fought off American invasion

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The White House

RESTORING THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF WAR

Section 1. Purpose. On August 7, 1789, 236 years ago, President George Washington signed into law a bill establishing the United States Department of War to oversee the operation and maintenance of ...
The New York Times

The Return of the ‘War Department’ Is More Than Nostalgia. It’s a Message.

President Trump and his defense secretary say they want to return to the era when America won wars. They largely ignore the greatest accomplishment of the past 80 years: avoiding superpower conflict. ...
Palm Beach Post

9/11 Memorial: Newspaper front pages of terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001

Sept. 11, 2025, marks the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. On that tragic day, 19 members of al-Qaida hijacked four planes, two of which were ...
The National Interest

The Case Against the “Department of War”

The Pentagon name change sends the wrong message to men and women in uniform. President Trump recently suggested that the United States should rename its military establishment, currently known as the ...
Task & Purpose

What was the Department of War and why was the name changed?

President Donald Trump recently hinted that he may revert the Department of Defense back to the Department of War, an old title dating back to 1789. “It used to be called the Department of War and it ...
USA Today

Trump signs order renaming Department of Defense the Department of War

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Sept. 5 ordered his administration to rename the Department of Defense the "Department of War," bringing back a Cabinet name abandoned in 1947 to match what ...
NPR

President Trump signs order to rename the Defense Department as the Department of War

President Trump signed an executive order on Friday to give the Department of Defense a new name: the Department of War. Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump said the rebranding reflected a new tone ...