It is one of the most evocative works from the American Civil War: A sculpture of a Black man who had escaped from slavery ...

In 1949 the U.S. War Department changed its name. Branches of the armed forces were then administered under the new name Department of Defence. This newly defined mandate of defending the United ...

Fascinating facts about Francis Scott Key, the writing of what would become America's national anthem, and the War of 1812 ...

The United States has been threatening to weaken Russia for years, and NATO has been aggressively approaching its borders. It ...

The battle for Syria is raging on the ground but also on social media, where people on both sides of the conflict are hacking, posting and spamming in a frenzied propaganda war.

American Peter Duke is convinced that Ukrainian defenders stand as the West's first line of defense as autocratic regimes ...

U.S. leaders also have spent years engaging ad nauseam in threats to weaken or break up Russia, to ruin the Russian economy, ...

It survived the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Civil War. Last summer, Susannah Neal and her niece, Rose, returned to visit the house where their ancestors lived.

This is not the rule of law. This is the rule of brute force. And because no American need be harmed and no American law need be broken, the president can target literally any foreigner he chooses.

The War of 1812 saw the newly independent U.S. attempt to expand its territory north, while the British defended their remaining North American colonies in Canada.

Add in the strength of the American economy, even amid the Trumpian trade war, and it seems that maybe we’re winning the world conflict again. “Rah-rah! Pax Americana forever!” OK, not quite.