From George Washington to Robert E. Lee, Arlington's history is as complicated as our own. Here's how it became the hallowed ...

Fort Pocahontas is an earthwork fort constructed in 1864 by United States Colored Troops under the command of Gen. Edward A.

From Guatemala to the Isthmus, these former Mexican states have come and gone — but where were they and why did they leave?

The military bugle call used in 1835 was changed from Scotts Tattoo, (Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott — General-in-chief of the ...

J. E. B. Stuart wrote from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, to his cousin Bettie Hairston, “A few ...

May 30 was a day designated for decorating the graves of fallen United States soldiers with flowers and flags.

On May 26, 1954, more than 100 crewmembers of the aircraft carrier USS Bennington died in an explosion off Rhode Island.