On Nov. 6, 1918, William Vail engaged nine German fighters alone and saved the life of a fellow aviator. He shot down one ...

In the winter of 1918, an illness was spreading in Haskell County, Kansas. The remote farming community in the state's southwestern corner sat roughly 300 miles from anywhere most Americans would ...

The website calling for the president's youngest son to be drafted employs a largely satirical tone.

This video examines how World War I troops used messenger dogs to deliver critical battlefield communications during the 1918 ...

Some of the United States’ most important historical documents are beginning a first-of-its kind journey Monday as part of ...

Some of the United States' most important historical documents began a first-of-its kind journey Monday as part of the ...

A poppy picked from Flanders Fields during the First World War and sent to a US soldier’s fiancée has been unearthed more than a century later. Harold Alfred Stivers pressed the delicate flower into a ...

The USS New York underway on May 29, 1915. (National Archives) Little is known of Wilhelm Smith’s background, save that he was born on April 10, 1870, in a German Empire that would formally unite in ...

Stops are planned in Kansas City, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Miami, the Detroit suburb of Dearborn and Seattle.

Some of the United States’ most important historical documents are beginning a first-of-its kind journey as part of the country’s 250th anniversary commemoration. The documents include the 1783 Treaty ...

National Guard senior leaders joined French army leaders in a ceremony Tuesday marking the longstanding alliance between the U.S. and ...