WAR

Much longer than four score and seven years ago, Abraham Lincoln delivered the most famous two-minute speech in history.

The 1861 Battle of Fort Sumter sparked the American Civil War. From the garrison's 19th-century beginnings to its current use as a National Historical Park, here are 10 fascinating facts about Fort Sumter.

The artworks were seized by the Nazis after a Jewish lawyer fled his Parisian home in the early 1940s.

It makes sense that master filmmakers keep returning to old wars to tell new stories, as war movies have all the elements needed for a compelling tale. From medieval epics to modern thrillers, here are 25 of the best of them.

Legislation passed this week requires the flag to be flown at the White House, the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, and more.

Bruce Campbell never expected to find some of World War II’s most important radio broadcasts buried in his cluttered basement.

Hurricane Dorian uncovered two Civil War cannonballs on South Carolina's Folly Beach—and it's not the first time cannonballs have washed up there.

In May 1918, Henry Johnson found himself alone in a French forest with a wounded ally, an empty rifle, and dozens of German soldiers closing in. He didn't run. He fought.

A week before Germany invaded Poland, Hitler organized and then called off a series of border skirmishes. This telegram shows that one Nazi didn’t get the memo.

Suspecting the donation may have been a mistake, Arizona Goodwill employees want to return the Purple Heart to the World War II Navy sailor’s family.

Tom Cruise earned his first Best Actor Oscar nomination for Oliver Stone's star-spangled Vietnam War flick, but the role of Ron Kovic was supposed to be Al Pacino's.

Lieutenant Colonel Robert Friend, one of the remaining original members of the Tuskegee Airmen—the first group of African-American pilots to serve in the U.S. military—passed away at 99 years old on June 21.