John Pumphrey is unknown no more. Through DNA testing and old-fashioned sleuthing, the Maryland teenager who died in one of ...

Carol Zetterberg stopped a duplex project to save the resting place of nearly 200 Revolutionary War soldiers in Langhorne.

Once Russian soldiers reach certain parts of the front lines of the war in Ukraine, they can expect to live an average of just 20 to 35 minutes, according to a grim estimate by Russian military ...

At least 500 of Connecticut's Revolutionary War soldiers were Black. One of these men was a physician — a rare occupation for enslaved people.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Wounded Civil War soldiers witnessed a mysterious glow that seemed to save their lives. Over a century later, two high school students solved the ...

The remains of a Revolutionary War soldier were identified as a young man from Maryland just before America's 250th ...

Uncrewed ground vehicles have already been tested for defending the front line by the Ukrainian military. Despite their limitations, these remotely controlled robots could be the deciding factor in ma ...

Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of skeletons at Colonial Williamsburg – but the skeletons weren’t from the Revolutionary War. The remains were found while excavators searched around ...

Historians say that Sarah Emma Edmonds exaggerated many aspects of her wartime experiences. Still, she bravely served in the Union Army, becoming one of hundreds of women who fought in the conflict in ...

In 1942, a group of Polish soldiers in Iran traded a few tins of meat, some chocolate, and a knife for a bear cub wrapped in a burlap sack. That cub grew into Wojtek, a Syrian brown bear who was later ...

The Australian government continues a long legal battle to charge 19 soldiers of war crimes while serving in Afghanistan. Is it worth it? The Australian government has designated $318 million over the ...

War takes a toll on soldiers’ bodies and minds. To prepare for battle, soldiers are taken through various forms of training. Part of this training aims to strip candidates of their civilian values and ...