New Graphic Novel Spotlights Robert Smalls, Who Escaped Slavery on a Stolen Confederate Ship Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress...
The Former Slave Who Stole a Confederate Ship to Achieve His Family's Freedom One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went...
An Alternate-History Channel on Reddit Is Gaming Out a Shockingly Realistic Second US Civil War Alternate history is fiction that imagines what would be different if some specific event was changed. A new alt-history...
The First Black Medal of Honor Action Is Brought to Life in the Latest AUSA Graphic Novel William Harvey Carney actions amid some of the most intense combat of the Civil War would earn him the respect of his fellow...
Removed Confederate Monuments in Maryland to Remain Hidden, Despite Trump Executive Order The statue of Captain John O’Donnell, an 18th century merchant who enslaved dozens of Black people on his Maryland plantation...
National Park Service Restores Original Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad Webpage The issue comes amid sweeping government changes to comply with President Donald Trump's campaign against so-called diversity...
Taps: How a Medal of Honor Recipient Gave America its Most Famous Military Bugle Call Ever The central role that Daniel Butterfield played in taps was largely unknown until the late 19th century, only coming to light...
Civil War Nurses, USS Constitution Commander Among Female Veterans Removed in Pentagon DEI Sweep Women veterans from the Civil War, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War are not exempt from Defense Department's...
North Carolina Judge Challenging Outcome of Race Wore Confederate Uniform in College Photo The emergence of the photographs comes at a delicate time for Jefferson Griffin, a Republican appellate judge who is seeking...
5 Powerful Artifacts in the New National Medal of Honor Museum The new National Medal of Honor Museum is set to officially open to the public on March 25, 2025, in Arlington, Texas.
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-40-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...
![](http://images01.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-04/1time%20AUSA%20medal%20of%20honor%20comic%201200.jpg?itok=ePa905ar ""Medal of Honor: William Carney" from the Association of the U.S. Army.")
