Medal of Honor

Waverly Woodson treated men for 30 hours on Omaha Beach, but his heroism became a casualty of entrenched racism, bureaucracy and Pentagon record-keeping.

Waverly Woodson treated at least 200 injured men on D-Day, despite being injured, himself.

The military’s focus on individual service members in the late years of Vietnam has created a permanent legacy

A bold new photographic project asks modern-day Americans to recreate portraits of their 19th-century ancestors in painstakingly accurate fashion.

How the authors of the Depression-era “Business Plot” aimed to take power away from FDR and stop his “socialist” New Deal.

While he did not die in a war, he can certainly be mourned as a casualty of war—as can the thousands of other veterans who have died by suicide.

Cailloux’s valor, and the Black troops he led in battle, electrified northern opinion and gave federal race policy a strong jolt.

The enlistment of black soldiers in the Union Army is well-known, but their Navy counterparts played an integral role, too.

Black veterans were once targeted for racialized violence because of the equality with whites that their military service implied.