Elisha Hunt Rhodes was a Civil War officer from a Cranston family (Rhodes on the Pawtuxet) who rose from private to the rank of colonel. His detailed diary became a major source for documentary editor ...

Less than one percent of the 16 million Americans who served in WWII are still alive today, and that includes a 103-year-old ...

To fight Mexico, the United States had to mobilize, equip, and transport a large force, including both army and navy ...

PBS' November 2024 lineup includes encore presentations of All Creatures Great & Small, Call the Midwife, along with new ...

Latest news and updates on the 2024 election. Follow the Trump-Vance and Harris-Walz campaigns in Michigan and Wisconsin ...

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris crisscrossed several swing states on Wednesday, passing each other in Wisconsin, where the ...

Ken Burns has been making documentaries. Over the years, he's created 36 documentary series for PBS, all of them about American history, from "The Civil War," "Baseball" and "Jazz," to ...

New York Giants outside linebacker Brian Burns goes by the nickname of Spider-man, the popular Marvel Comics character who patrols the streets of New York to thwart criminals from doing their thing.

delivering a much-threatened response to this month’s 180-missile attack and further expanding the regional hostilities that have spiraled out of the yearlong war in Gaza. The attacks played out ...

Both sides face a barrage of war crimes accusations from the United States and rights groups, although only the R.S.F. has been accused of ethnic cleansing. “The fighting season has just ...

North Korean soldiers in Russia According to a report published last Friday, Pyongyang wants to provide up to 12,000 soldiers for Russia's war in Ukraine. Of these, 1,500 were said to have already ...

What are the best free MMOs on PC ... before heading into Lord of the Rings Online – so that is half the battle. If Middle-earth: Shadow of War didn’t scratch that Tolkien itch then perhaps ...