Morris Michtom, a small toy store owner, put two stuffed ’teddy bears’ in his Brooklyn shop window for sale, inspired by an ...

On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.

I’ll furnish the war.” Hearst’s quip was apocryphal, but he and Pulitzer did, in fact, furnish a war. In 1898, the American warship USS Maine, anchored off Cuba, exploded and sank, killing 266 crew ...

President Donald Trump has thrust the 25th U.S. president (1897-1901) back into the spotlight, restoring his name to the ...

The USS Augusta is an Independence-variant littoral combat ship commissioned in Eastport on Sept. 30, 2024. It is the 17th ...

Comprised of the first-in-class Kitty Hawk, USS Constellation, USS America, and the Kennedy, the vessels were the last group of carriers to be powered by fossil fuels, which were replaced by the ...

The retired USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier will embark on its final voyage Thursday morning after spending nearly two decades docked in Philadelphia. The retired Navy carrier is set to ...

The survivors of the attack on the USS Liberty -- an event that happened 55 years ago -- snapped salutes as the president of the USS Liberty Veterans Association, Larry L. Bowen, began a ...

The former USS John F. Kennedy departed Philadelphia for its final voyage before being dismantled in Texas. After a weather-related delay, the aircraft carrier left the U.S. Navy’s Inactive ...