Known for using unconventional materials — from Pearl Harbor seawater to meteorite moondust — in the name of horological ...

I was also gripped by Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know (Cape, £22) – a philosophical novel masquerading as a bizarre dystopia of ...

In 1813, the United States launched its most ambitious campaign of the War of 1812: a massive two-pronged invasion with[...] ...

When British forces under Benedict Arnold sailed up the James River to invade Virginia, Thomas Jefferson, then Governor, hesitated and then fled. Years later he returned to power and became president.

The Spitfire may have stolen the glory, but it was the Hurricane that shouldered muchof the fight in the Battle of Britain, ...

The Battle of Britain ended 85 years ago today—closing a months-long air war with clear parallels to the ongoing fight in the skies over Ukraine.

The Battle of Culloden marked the end of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and was the last pitched battle fought on British soil ...

In August 1665, the Battle of Vågen unfolded in Bergen, Norway, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. A Dutch merchant fleet, backed by unexpected Danish allies, clashed with a formidable English ...

Jefferson wrote that Norfolk must be destroyed. Months later, Patriots burned much of the city themselves — and blamed the ...

Remember, remember, the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and plot. For I see no reason why Gunpowder Treason should ever ...

First Lt. Jimmie W. Monteith, Jr., Major Gen. James E Rudder, Private Ken Moore and Private Robert Wright, I’m sure that, somewhere in my learning and teaching of American history, ...