The U.S. Navy is officially changing the name of the San Diego-built USNS Harvey Milk to the USNS Oscar V. Peterson, Defense ...

Edda L. Fields-Black is the winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History, and the author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the ...

"It used to be called secretary of war," the president said. "Maybe for a couple of weeks we'll call it that because we feel ...

No other changes are expected soon to the fleet of John Lewis-class ships, most of which are named after civil rights figures ...

The documents call for Navy Secretary John Phelan to select a new name for the USNS Harvey Milk on Tuesday, with the notice of the name change going out to other senior U.S. Navy officials later ...

There were the famous Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, the less well-known Gen. William Whiting, Adm. Raphael Semmes and Confederate Secretary of the Navy Stephen Mallory, America’s first Catholic ...

The tenure of Ambassador J. William Middendorf II as secretary of the Navy offers an object lesson in how to overcome these serious problems. Middendorf took the helm of the Navy in 1974. It was a ...

Before the war ended, about 180,000 Black soldiers had served in the Army, but shoddy guesswork by the Navy initially put the number of Black sailors at about 29,000, Reidy said in an interview ...