16.One of the biggest fads of the 1950s was "phonebooth stuffing," where-in a bunch of people would, well, stuff themselves ...

Widely considered one of the world’s most terrible wars, “The Great War” is a moment in human history we would like to forget ...

Are we willing to give up on our liberty and independence so many generations have fought for and allow one man to occupy a ...

By early September 1914, the German advance had reached within 30 miles of the French capital. Executing a modified version of the Schlieffen Plan, designed to quickly attack France through neutral ...

A historical marker will be placed at Fort Des Moines this summer to honor the 1,000 thousand black soldiers who trained there to become officers during World War One. Researcher Keith King says ...

The action was particularly important because as a consequence of the battle, the German East Asia Squadron ... light on what was a defining point in WWI, and therefore a landmark moment in ...

Rose Girone, the oldest known Holocaust survivor who endured both German and Japanese oppression but lived for eight decades ...

The unit war diary for that day states that the 6th Battalion was at Rouge de Bout and trenches at Petillon and there was one soldier – Private Jones – killed, one seriously wounded and one ...

Except it wasn't a rat, but a young kangaroo brought from Australia by Indigenous soldier William Charles Westbury. Lieutenant Horace George Viney of the 3rd Light Horse Regiment recorded the ...

Black men enlist for the Fort Des Moines' Officer Training Camp. Historian Don North said he’s got love for three things: history, the military and horses. He could pursue them all as a ...