Peter Salem was a formerly enslaved man who was freed to fight in the American Revolutionary War. He is credited by many with fatally shooting British Major John Pitcairn during the Battle of Bunker ...

SALEM — The Salem Athenaeum and Peabody Essex Museum have canceled multiple historical programs planned this month following public concerns that the discussions didn’t include any Black, Indigenous, ...

It’s a bright November morning in the Solomon Sea. Aboard the Japanese heavy cruiser Chokai, Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa surveys his regrouping fleet with confidence. The destroyers glide ahead in ...

The Second World War was home to some brutal fighting. Few theaters were quite as grueling as the War in the Pacific, which saw American and Allied forces squaring off with the Imperial Japanese Navy.

The family of a Pennsylvania naval officer, killed more than eight decades ago when an anchored Navy destroyer exploded and sank off New York Harbor, believes their loved one's remains may be buried ...

This is the bell of the USS California, one of 8 battleships hit in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The USS California was badly damaged by two aerial torpedoes and *** bomb. During ...

At dawn on October 25, 1944, the U.S. Navy escort-carrier group “Taffy 3” sighted the Imperial Japanese Navy’s remaining battleship fleet approaching from the northern horizon off Samar—four ...

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I visited Salem, Massachusetts, recently with some of my kids. It seemed like an appropriate Halloween kind of trip, despite a lot of the obvious tourist trappings of the town of Salem itself. Like ...