The word "Connecticut" takes its namesake from the Mohegan word "Quinnehtukqut," which means "long tidal river" and references the Connecticut River – New England's longest, running through the state ...

"I was 18 years old when I got on that ship and went to war," said Broussard. Broussard’s naval career spanned six years, taking him across multiple deployments. He served on the USS Missouri ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (Tribune News Service) — The crew of the USS Fort Worth gathered Monday to celebrate the milestone birthday of Elsie “Kitty” Rippin, a World War II Navy veteran ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a ... Though Tubman is most famous for her successes along the Underground Railroad, her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known. As a ...

On June 19, 1864, the Union sloop-of-war USS Kearsarge laid in wait outside ... action far away from the main theater of the Civil War, it was a famous sea duel then. At the time, the action ...

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn ... her successes along the Underground Railroad, her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known. As a biographer of Tubman, I think this ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) What she did have was a deep faith and powerful passion for justice that was fueled by ...