Leaders in the LGBTQ+ community and the family of Long Island native and gay rights activist Harvey Milk this week denounced a Pentagon review that could strip his name from a U.S. Navy ship.

U.S. officials say Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk in a highly rare move.

WASHINGTON — Books ... civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou's award-winning autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U.S ...

Early on June 29, 1942, the 8,032-ton British steam tanker HMS Empire Mica cruised east through calm waters toward Key West, ...

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One might well wonder why an inland city was selected as the site of a Civil War naval museum. The answer is twofold.

The naval theater of the American Civil War was filled with innovation and strategic importance. From the Union’s Anaconda ...

He is a former U.S. Marine infantryman and veteran of the Afghanistan war. U.S. Navy documents obtained by ... The class of ships is named after civil rights icon and Congressman John Lewis ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865 ...

Continuing the Trump admin's effort to purge all programs of references to diversity, equity and inclusion, Defense Secretary ...

All of the essays are well written, deeply researched, and throw considerable light on hitherto obscure corners of the war. One, “Capitals and Communities in War and Revolution,” examines the wartime ...