On more than one occasion, General Dwight D. Eisenhower perplexed younger officers by referring to a Dougherty wagon. Having joined the military in 1911, “Ike” was well acquainted with a type of wagon ...

An old black and white photo showing three Union Civil War officers prompted research that reconnected the two dissimilar halves of James Frederick Rowe’s life. “A picture can teach history if one ...

Many of the medical technologies we have today were either created or greatly improved during the Civil War. One example of this is when you call 911 with a medical emergency and the ambulance arrives ...

It’s hard to decide what’s more horrifying: The simple image of the barefoot young Syrian boy, covered in gray dust after being rescued from a bombed-out building, or the dazed and desensitized look ...

A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War Historians tend to present “a carefully curated inventory of provocations” when explaining “the ...

THE AMBULANCE DRIVERS: HEMINGWAY, DOS PASSOS, AND A FRIENDSHIP MADE AND LOST IN WAR By James McGrath Morris Da Capo Press, $27, 288 pages Although the late, great writer Ernest Hemingway has many ...

ANSONIA—The white triangle logo painted on this Valley town’s first ambulance seems quaint now, but it was part of America’s first preparations for nuclear war. The initials in red at the heart of the ...

A chilling image of a young boy who was pulled from the rubble of an airstrike that hit Aleppo, the center of Syria’s bloody civil war, on Wednesday is calling renewed attention to the war’s continued ...