The U.S. Navy’s battleships have long been symbols of naval power and versatility, each with a unique and storied history.

Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...

Civil War Army nurse Caroline Burghardt and her gravesite ... (U.S. Navy) The USS Constitution, first launched in 1797, is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat and the only current U.S ...

Here’s what happened in April 1861, leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which spurred the launch of the American Civil War.

CHINA has launched a fresh round of army, navy and rocket force exercises encircling Taiwan, Xi Jinping’s military has ...

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...

Christopher Tounsel, University of Washington (THE CONVERSATION) A series of advances by the Sudanese military has led some observers to posit that the African nation’s yearslong civil war could be at ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Tharaphi Than, Northern Illinois University (THE CONVERSATION) While the United ...

Yemen's Huthis said on Tuesday they carried out their third attack on American warships in 48 hours ... in the Red Sea after the start of the Gaza war and until a January ceasefire, claiming ...

China has launched some of its biggest military drills around Taiwan in months, in what it said was a "warning" to separatist forces on the island.