One of the most iconic directors in Classic Hollywood, John Ford made many of the all-time best war movies, like Sergeant ...

The White House Salute to America 250 Task Force has partnered with Hillsdale College to provide a history series that tells the remarkable story of American Independence. It will highlight the ...

For more than a century, this Black soldier from Virginia was remembered by nearly no one. Then this year, someone at the ...

During the bloody battle for Hurtgen Forest in late 1944, a 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield. Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld ordered his men not to ...

A memorial recognizing Black WWII soldiers was quietly taken down at a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands. Dutch media reports that two informational panels about African American soldiers in ...

Raphael Morris has never been to his uncle's final resting place, the U.S. military's only cemetery in the Netherlands—although a trans-Atlantic trip is on his bucket list. To go and see where U.S.

American Marines and soldiers are once again rucking through the Panamanian jungle, for the first time in more than two decades. The U.S. military, along with Panamanian security forces, revived ...

At 10:59 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, a German machine gun crew fired a burst of rounds at approaching Americans. One bullet struck 23-year-old Pvt. Henry Gunther in the left temple. He died instantly.

Image courtesy of Black Liberators in the Netherlands/Snopes Illustration The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC), which manages American commemorative military cemeteries and memorials ...

John Monsky details the history of the Unknown Soldier and the origins of Veterans Day. The U.S. takes no territory in WWI, only leases for nine cemeteries for the American dead. Each grave has a ...

Plaques commemorating African American soldiers fighting against Nazi Germany in Europe have been removed from a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands. Approximately 1 million African American ...

Nearly one million African American soldiers fought in Europe during World War II. Now, plaques at a memorial site honoring the sacrifice of African American soldiers in the Netherlands have been ...