To reclaim the Mississippi River during the Civil War, the Lincoln Administration contacted St. Louis businessman James B. Eads and awarded him a contract to build and equip for the navy seven ...

Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...

Military deployment and push for regime change echoes centuries of armed intervention by the US in Latin America ...

The naval gunboat USS Marietta (PG-15) made quite a splash, you could say, when presented with a “magnificent” silver service ...

The White House cites drug enforcement, but analysts say the military buildup just off the coast of Venezuela recalls a return to gunboat diplomacy.

Not enough had been written about Florida’s maritime history, so Florida writers Joe Knetsch, Nick Wynne, and Robert Redd decided to fill that gap with a fascinating and colorful expansion on the ...

Venezuela’s brutal authoritarian regime has been the scourge of the Americas for more than a decade. Backed by Russia, China ...

BIKE TOUR BRINGS US JUST OUTSIDE OF VIRGINS IN SEARCH OF SUNKEN TREASURE. THE HISTORY OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN IS REALLY DOCUMENTED IN THE SHIPWRECKS THAT WE FIND ON THE BOTTOM OF THE LAKE. CHRIS SABIN IS ...

My grandmother had a saying, "Sometimes big things come in small packages." I believe this applies to Mound City, Illinois, when it comes to its impact on helping the Union Army win the Civil War. To ...

The gunboat USS Philadelphia, the oldest surviving American fighting vessel and an American cultural treasure, is being preserved at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in part ...

A clever trick by a vastly outnumbered Wayne County regiment in the Civil War opened the way for the North to win an important victory that would ultimately make a difference in the war’s outcome. The ...