The 1913 Gettysburg Reunion was an event held to commemorate the 50th anniversary of its namesake battle. The engagement, considered the turning point of the American Civil War, involved 93,921 Union ...

Project Stargate sounds like something out of this world – and it kind of is. No, it doesn’t refer to wormholes or the exploration of other planets, but, instead, a Central Intelligence Agency ...

Abraham Wald was a Hungarian mathematician who made significant contributions to the field of statistical analysis in the first half of the 20th century. One of his most notable successes was his work ...

The Pacific (2010) is one of the most realistic depictions of the fighting that occurred in the Pacific Theater during the Second World War. It shows just what the American forces – in particular, US ...

To defeat Germany during World War II, the British public had to give up many staple items, and, for the most part, they did so without much objection. They were prepared to have their gas, bacon, ...

In the popular memory of the American Civil War, the battle lines are clean: a sea of Union Blue clashing against a wall of Confederate Gray. But in 1861, the reality on the ground was a chromatic ...

Ghost Car: In the early 1990s, a former Danish special forces soldier felt a calling from God to go to Bosnia and provide humanitarian aid during the Bosnian War. With the help of the US Army, he was ...

Internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War is widely known and well documented. However, less is known about the thousands of “ethnic Germans” who were also detained, as well as ...

There are a number of reasons why submarines have been taken out of commission while scouring the depths of the ocean. These include hitting sea mines, being shot at with torpedoes, getting into ...

The Vietnam War was infamous for the guerrilla warfare the American forces were largely unprepared for. The Viet Cong were on home turf and used this to their advantage when it came to creating and ...

One of the best-known films about the Second World War is The Longest Day (1962), which centers around D-Day. In a number of scenes, members of the cast, whether they’re portraying members of the ...

Before one can discuss the use of scorched earth policies, it must be understood what such tactics entail. In general, a scorched earth policy is a strategy which aims to destroy anything that may be ...