The racing stripes of Coast Guard ships serve as important branding and help ensure that the vessels can be identified. The design, so familiar to millions of Americans and others around the world ...

In 2010, construction crews working in Lower Manhattan found the remains of a Revolutionary War-era gunboat buried deep underground. Now, after years of restoration work, the 18th-century vessel has ...

Filip Vezdin, a Croatian missionary and scholar, pioneered Sanskrit studies in Europe. His printed grammar, cultural analyses ...

If you want to make diet choices that help the planet, the most common and effective advice is to eat fewer animals and more ...

Scientists mapping a part of the bottom of the ocean humans haven't properly researched before needed to use robots for their ...

Starting in the 18th century, members of the Martin family began to arrive in the Lehigh Valley. From the first they numbered ...

The Vaughn family was among the early settlers in the Alton area, possibly around 1790, according to family tradition. Josiah Vaughn arrived in the area from Kentucky.

In late August 1619, “20 and odd” captive Africans first touched the soil at Point Comfort (now Fort Monroe National Monument), part of England’s new colony in Virginia.These men and women ...

The War of 1812 is one of our forgotten wars, skimmed over in school lessons and rarely the subject of movies. To the British ...

A petition has been launched to save one of Scotland's oldest ferry crossings. The Renfrew - Yoker ferry first began ...