South Vietnamese veteran Dam Pham and U.S. Army veteran Stuart Herrington describe the chaos at the U.S. Embassy during their ...

After the relief ships that were supposed to return them to the U.S. failed to reach Lady Franklin Bay for two successive ...

Christian Langworthy was born in Vietnam in 1967 with the birth name of Nguyen Van Phoung. He came to the United States in ...

The president refused to denounce McCarthy until the senator set out to expose communists within the U.S. Army.

Browse these pro- and anti-Grant political cartoons, spanning his military and political careers, and investigate the range ...

Many prisons used to hold American POWs were in close proximity to Hanoi, with a few of the more well known jails located ...

Art by Mawhyah Milton. Source photo of L. Frank Baum: Library of Congress. L. Frank Baum needed a new life. In February 1886, his brother and business partner Benjamin died of pneumonia. The two Baum ...

Before the Civil War, almost nobody in Missouri supported the abolition of salvery. Even strong Unionists generally supported ...

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Phase one, Operation Olympic, the invasion of Kyushu, was scheduled for November 1, 1945. Only troops already stationed in ...

Cartoonist Robert Ripley got contract to produce one cartoon per day. At $100,000 per year, it increased his income tenfold.

Read the interview with Paul Fritz Bugas, the former on-site superintendent of the Greenbrier Bunker, that was designed to house the members of the House of Representatives and Senate in case of ...