Laying mines is cheap—and easy. Clearing them is expensive and hard. The potential consequences are terrifying.

The tanker Dixie Arrow was among the ships targeted by German U-boats off North Carolina in WWII. It was hit by a U-boat ...

The gunboat sank during the Revolutionary War and wasn't found for 159 years. The Smithsonian is sprucing it up for America's 250th birthday.

Authorities have identified a New Bedford fisherman killed after the fishing vessel Yankee Rose capsized near Provincetown.

A new book chronicles the tense negotiations that secured the return of nearly 3,000 Allied civilians held by the Japanese ...

The sinking of the IRIS Dena by an American submarine in the Indian Ocean and off the coast of Sri Lanka marks the first time the US sunk a ship with a torpedo after World War Two. What are torpedoes, ...

The Kanawha River, which flows from Gauley Bridge, Fayette County, West Virginia, through Charleston, West Virginia, to Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia, has been the inspiration for the ...

He said: “Even at the time, the disaster nationally was yet another tragedy of WWI, which was buried in the terrible things ...

In 1918 an airfield was set up on the outskirts of Omagh in County Tyrone ...

Publication of an intercepted cable exposed a clumsy German effort to forge an alliance with Mexico and helped propel the United States into the Great War.

What technologies came about thanks to the Great War? Learn all about the massive technological leaps forward from the First World War.

Howard Hughes’ Hell’s Angels was an ambitious early war film that took 3 years to make and was so dangerous that it led to ...