MILITARY

During the Revolutionary War, George Washington approved a plan to kidnap Prince William Henry, a son of King George III.

This 80-year-old archival footage shows Operation Neptune—the code name for the landings on the beaches at Normandy.

From Jeeps to GPS and jerrycans, the military has fostered inventions that we use every day.

Some experts believe the Kármán Line is the deciding factor, but others aren't in agreement about where the frontier of space really begins.

D-Day occurred on June 6, 1944, and kicked off the Battle of Normandy. Though it was a success, General Eisenhower was preparing for the worst.

Asking a police officer “do you drink?” in the 1970s had nothing to do with grabbing a beer at a nearby bar.

Legend has it that a heroic American commander at the Battle of Bunker Hill implored his men to hold their fire until their enemies were under their noses. But did the event actually happen?

The Irei Project and Ancestry have teamed up to publish the most comprehensive list ever assembled of the more than 125,000 Japanese Americans who were incarcerated on American soil during WWII.

The abbreviations are widely understood as “morning” and “afternoon,” but what do the Latin translations actually mean?

Almost as soon as it was introduced—and for generations after—the Presidential Fitness Test was absolutely traumatizing to students who had to endure it. Here’s how the program started—and ended.

Conspiracy theorists were right to think the government was hiding something.

With his catchphrase ‘veni, vidi, vici,’ Julius Caesar was saying much more than simply “I came, I saw, I conquered."