Soldiers who called themselves 'tunnel rats' fought an underground war in Vietnam through an intricate maze of hardened ...

He joined the firm Willis & Knight, but politics was in his blood. In 1983, he was elected Tennessee Democratic Party chair ...

The Kerner Commission Report (1968) Appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, a commission chaired by Governor Otto Kerner of Illinois explored the reasons behind the Detroit riots of 1967.

He wasn’t the kind of man to cry, but I think he would’ve shed a tear when he heard that he was getting his lighter back.” ...

For Spencer Matteson, the memories of a battlefield "covered with dead bodies" are still painful. But with his help, ...

The O-2 enjoyed a multi-decade service life with the US Air Force, US Navy, and US Army—having been introduced in 1967 and ...

Step-by-step instructions for coming up with an engaging list of recommendations for things we should — or shouldn’t — read, watch, experience, eat or listen to. By Katherine Schulten If ...

Seven soldiers who served in the wars in Vietnam and Korea received the Medal of Honor -- the nation’s highest military award ...

WASHINGTON — One soldier from North Carolina, shielding a wounded comrade he'd pulled from a downed helicopter in Vietnam, suffered 20 bullet wounds and died saving him. Another U.S. soldier ...

The singer-songwriter and social activist best known as one-third of the folk-music group Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at ...

Not so many people realize that even the “kinder, gentler” U.S. Air Force had its own band of rough and ready ground-pounders ...

The world's oldest person is now 116-year-old Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, who was born 16 days after Tomiko Itooka.