In the summer of 1942, the British Eighth Army was losing the war in North Africa. Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps had smashed through the Gazala line, captured Tobruk, and sent the British reeling back ...

Soldiers of the American Revolution: African American of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment; New England militiaman; frontier rifleman wearing a Virginia hunting shirt; French officer in a blue coat.

Fresh from his major victory at Horseshoe Bend, the recently promoted Major General Andrew Jackson began forming the most unusual army ever to defend American soil. Tennessee and Kentucky riflemen.

Leaders of the British Royal Air Force visited the Air Force Academy in January to honor 10 American pilots who flew in the Battle of Britain before the U.S. officially entered World War II.  “Their ...