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 ...

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

One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...

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

On the heels of the 161st anniversary of the day the H.L. Hunley and its crew sank, the North Charleston museum has newly ...

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

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

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

It won’t come as any surprise that there are stories about smaller, determined military forces battling and winning against ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

You can get in touch with John by emailing [email protected] The Russian-crewed, Norwegian-owned ship Silver Dania is ... Russia and NATO amid the ongoing war in Ukraine. The West had already ...