For the thousands of American and British “forces kids” raised in post-war Germany, watching football was a way of feeling at ...

Next July marks 250 years since a handful of upstart American colonies declared independence from Britain. A war was fought, ...

Kathleen DuVal is a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of the Pulitzer Prize ...

Nick Bunker is the author of “An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for history in 2015. 5 min ...

The American Revolution was a conflict between Great Britain and its 13 North American colonies, which declared independence as the United States of America. The seeds of the war were the growing ...

Often overlooked, the French "Charleville" infantry musket was one of the most significant longarms of the 18th and 19th ...

Mr. Rhodes is a contributing Opinion writer. President Trump’s visit to Britain was designed to flatter with imperial imagery: Windsor Castle, a carriage ride, flyovers, a glimpse at the Churchill ...

These two Allied heavy hitters were built for the same purpose: a new assault tank for close support and breakthrough fighting. The American machine borrowed much from existing designs but added ...

An unemployed Prussian drillmaster named Baron von Steuben clutches his (largely fabricated) letters of recommendation as he awaits a job interview in Pennsylvania. Molly Brant, a Haudenosaunee ...

Meanwhile, the Trump White House is charting a new course to war, this time in the direction of Venezuela. Has the administration concluded that the rapid conquest of Venezuela could induce the kind ...