Jordan resident Henry Eikenbusch, who fought in World War I for Germany and came to Minnesota in 1923, registered for the draft, along with other men ages 20-44, on Monday. Otto Miller resigned his ...

The constitution gives Congress the power to enact a draft, with each draft deciding who is to be pressed into military ...

On Monday, Oct. 6, 1952, the private train "Eisenhower Express," carrying Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife Mamie, rolled ...

Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...

Bob Grant made an agreement with God when the Viet Cong attacked his base at Chu Lai, Vietnam, in January 1968. This agreement would shape his actions for the rest of his life. Grant is one of ...

Rupert’s shocking decision was the climax of a succession battle that had pitted James and Lachlan, born just 15 months apart ...

Sacco and Vanzetti are interred, not in a tomb — their bodies were cremated shortly after their executions — but in an archive, a testament to a radical tradition and the first Red Scare which sought ...

Leveraging novel variation from the WWI draft lottery and millions of digitized military and NAACP records, we document the pioneering role these men would play in the early civil rights movement.

Editor's note: Palm Beach County leads every county east of the Mississippi in agricultural sales, according to the Palm ...

Hitler was convicted of high treason for his leadership of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, which was an attempt to overturn the ...

Hours after British Prime Minister Theresa May announced that her Cabinet supported a draft agreement laying out ... Trump goes to Paris to mark the end of WWI. What can we expect?

Trump is playing a tough guy with the world but in the Middle East the returning president seems to make US policies even ...