Army Maj. Gen. Sean Flynn of Delmar is now the top-ranking American officer in one of NATO’s three Allied Joint Force Commands.

The prison on Alcatraz Island wasn't called 'The Rock' for nothing. (National Park Service) When I teach the Civil War, I frequently encounter surprised faces when students learn that California, so ...

Khomeini’s revolution was followed quickly by an Iranian student faction’s seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran (the “nest of spies” they called it) and Jimmy Carter’s inability to negotiate the ...

In 1861, a long-growing tension in the United States finally reached a breaking point. It wasn’t a sudden explosion of ...

Ulysses Grant, the leading Union general of the Civil War, was instrumental to victories in the Battles of Chattanooga before ...

The American Civil War took place from 1861 to 1865, a battle between the Union and the newly formed Confederacy over the ...

OL's former shooting editor Jack O'Connor dives into the role of Remington and Winchester in American history.

President Trump shared a statement on Thursday with an uplifting message on the anniversary of the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Court House. The surrender of General Robert E. Lee's Army of ...

The second draft law, called the Energy Freedom Act, was produced by the policy nonprofit associated with Hild’s organization ...

Like with humans, it is not uncommon in the natural world for a group of animals to split apart and form their own independent groups. But what a new study in the journal Science depicts in the ...

The world’s largest-known group of chimpanzees split into two factions that are now engaged in deadly combat ...

The danger posed by Donald Trump’s authoritarianism means that unions can’t afford to remain in a defensive crouch. And ...