History

USS Ward was one of many warships used during the war, but there was something special about USS Ward that earned its popularity – it fired the first shot at Pearl Harbor from the US side of the war.

Have you ever been in a situation where things are just chill, and the next thing you knew, a minor thing was blown way out of proportion, and things escalated quickly from zero to 100 real fast?

In the 19th century, a German author named Karl May wrote a series of novels set in the American West — which later influenced the worldview of Adolf Hitler.

There were LGTBQ soldiers who braved the wars and went to protect their nations even when they were hidden, dismissed, and just plainly discriminated against.

Why does the US Navy spend a huge amount of budget on maintaining a forest when wood-hulled warships were phased out at the end of the 1800s?

Here are some of the commonly told myths of the First World War that had been debunked.

Throughout the years, there had been many ranks that were phased out and no longer used for some reasons. Here are some of them.

When the North and South were clashing against one another, fighting for what they believed in, spies played a huge part in most parts of the American Civil War.

Things were much different over 100 years ago, when finding sufficient and edible food was part of the challenge the soldiers had to face.

There were also women who did equally brutal things in the Nazi concentration camps but were often overlooked for some reason. Here are some of them that you probably have never heard of before.

There was a debate on whether the tornado spared Washington from the British or if it actually helped them ruin the city.

One of the biggest factors not known to many was the vast and wide-ranging list of rules that the soldiers had to follow, all while trying to fight for their lives, known as the rules of engagement.