The first true commander-in-chief of the armed forces to lead the Revolutionary War was not, as many believe, George ...

Donald Trump may have crossed a new line but he isn’t the only potty-mouthed president, a tradition that dates all the way ...

Victory parades abounded after the 20th century’s world wars. But the last major military parade in Washington was in 1991.

Among the standout items is a lock of George Washington’s greying hair, ... Another highlight is a US flag that draped Abraham Lincoln’s coffin during its journey to his final resting place in ...

The Army had long planned a celebration for its semi-quincentennial on June 14. Trump has wanted to preside over a grand military parade since his first presidency from 2017 to 2021. When he took ...

But the commander in chief needs some leeway to restore order and enforce the law in genuine emergencies, as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight D. Eisenhower and other presidents did.

The U.S. will observe Juneteenth on Thursday. Juneteenth was recognized as a federal holiday in 2021. It goes back to 1865 in Galveston, Texas.

That is, if they made it ashore at all. Many men drowned when their landing craft were swamped by seawater in the choppy English Channel. Weighed down by a hundred pounds of gear strapped to their ...

The military parade commemorating the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary and coinciding with Donald Trump’s 79th birthday will not be the first U.S. military parade, though it's unusual outside of wartime.

The assassination of a Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband and the shooting of another lawmaker and his wife at their homes are just the latest addition to a long and unsettling ...

On library shelves the multi-volumed biographies by Nicolay and Hay, Sandburg, and Randall and Current stand cover to cover with *Lincoln Never Smoked a Cigarette* and *Abraham Lincoln on the Coming ...