About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the gray skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ships set ablaze by Confederate sailors who ...

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

Even longtime Civil War history buffs learned something new at the Kankakee Valley Historical Society’s event Saturday in ...

William Adelin-the grandson of William the Conqueror and the heir to the thrones of England and Normandy-died at the age of ...

The mass-produced Liberty ships that played a significant role in WWII eventually helped Greece become the world's leading ...

Discover the inspiring story of Isaac Myers, a pioneering Baltimore caulker and advocate for union rights, who fought for fair wages and equal opportunities for Black workers in the 1800s.

The fact that Eustace is prepared to jump ship from a club who are, at the time of writing, sixth in the Championship, for ...

A Philippine plane warned a Chinese military helicopter over the South China Sea that it was "flying too close," as tension ...

Nantucket is home to more than 800 pre-Civil War era buildings, one of which marks an important milestone in 2025.

Britain said on Saturday it had tracked in recent days six Russian naval and merchant ships carrying ammunition used in Syria as they sailed through the Channel. The British defence ...

Yemen's Houthi rebels are proving they are a threat that won't go away easily, continuously warning to escalate attacks ...

For all that however, the slave trade had to be brought to an end because it was standing in the way of the development of something even more profitable, if not any less abhorrent than the slave ...