And it comes during Pride Month — the ... The USS Chancellorsville — named for the Civil War battle — was renamed the USS Robert Smalls after a sailor and former enslaved person.

The ship was christened in 2021, and during the ceremony ... named for the Civil War battle — was renamed the USS Robert Smalls after a sailor and former enslaved person. And the USNS Maury ...

a ship dubbed for a killed gay rights activist who served as a sailor during the Korean War. U.S. officials say Navy Secretary John Phelan put together a small team to rename the replenishment ...

While metal detecting near the historic Battle of Port Hudson, we may have uncovered something chilling — a collection of Civil War relics that suggest the final moments of a Union Cavalry Officer ...

SCHMIDT HAD ONE MORE LITTLE BOSTON SECRET TO SHARE WITH US. TALK ABOUT HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. THIS ONE’S RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE ...

Homer Anthony, a 1941 graduate of Reading High School was killed in 1943 while serving in the Navy during World War II. His ...

During the Civil War, Charles Henry Quander, a slave at the Hayfield Plantation, provided food to a unit of Union soldiers from Pennsylvania assigned to Camp Vermont. According to the Quander ...

The USS Constitution had three distinguished visitors during the War of Independence in 1827 -Kolokotronis, Canaris and Lord ...

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a crucial ... Northeast Africans—captured and forced across the Red Sea during a 1,300-year period of slave trade that began in the seventh ...

“The Revolution on Cape Cod and the Islands: Issues, Events, and People” focuses on events that took place across the Cape ...

Stephen Platt, who teaches 19th and 20th century Chinese history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, made a ...

Henry Johnson and Pvt. Needham Roberts during World War I. The lithograph quotes Gen. Pershing, who praises the two African American sentries, who "continued fighting after receiving wounds and ...