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Washington's most terrifying general was shot in the head and refused to leave the battle
2+ hour, 4+ min ago (1383+ words) Daniel Tobias Flint is a professionally certified U. S. History teacher based in Jacksonville, Florida, with more than 20 years of experience in the classroom and has built a career centered on bringing the past to life for students through rigorous, engaging, and…...
It's time to revisit 'World of Warships' and its slew of new updates for 2026
15+ hour, 57+ min ago (715+ words) Blake Stilwell is We Are The Mighty's Editor-in-Chief, covering military news, entertainment, and history, along with veteran education, employment and entrepreneurship. He is a former U. S. Air Force combat cameraman with degrees in Graphic Design, Television and Film, International Relations, Public…...
Ukraine is using a World War I 'creeping barrage' tactic to turn the tide of the war
23+ hour, 4+ min ago (922+ words) Blake Stilwell is We Are The Mighty's Editor-in-Chief, covering military news, entertainment, and history, along with veteran education, employment and entrepreneurship. He is a former U. S. Air Force combat cameraman with degrees in Graphic Design, Television and Film, International Relations, Public…...
This Navy aviator escaped his captors during the Vietnam War and lived to tell about it
21+ hour, 49+ min ago (180+ words) Published Apr 8, 2026 5: 00 AM PDT The U. S. military saved Dengler in the nick of time, according to author Bruce Henderson. Henderson served with Dengler in Vietnam and wrote "Hero Bound: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War" about his friend's capture…...
Why the service academies deserve their own spot in March Madness
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (304+ words) Published Apr 7, 2026 11: 00 AM PDT The 1968 refusal is arguably more famous. Coach Bob Knight turned down an NCAA bid in favor of the NIT, because he thought his team had a better shot at winning it without Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)…...
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1+ day, 21+ hour ago (16+ words) Some military nonprofits are MIA at a time when families need them most'We Are The Mighty...
How a bidding war inspired a WWI veteran to push for an NFL draft
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (263+ words) Published Apr 7, 2026 5: 00 AM PDT Bell, who became the NFL's commissioner in 1946, helped spearhead such innovations as the two-minute warning and sudden-death overtime. Nothing he did, though, is as popular as the NFL draft. Since ESPN first aired the proceedings in…...
How a steamboat carrying Union soldiers sank and became 'America's Titanic"
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (177+ words) Published Apr 6, 2026 8: 00 AM PDT A gunboat retrieved Lugenbeal from the water. Others were not so lucky. Initial estimates placed the number of dead at 1, 700, but others later died from their injuries. People pulled bodies from the water for weeks. Three…...
The ship that delivered the atomic bomb was sunk, and nobody came to look for it
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (1366+ words) Published Apr 6, 2026 5: 00 AM PDT At the same time, far from the skies over Japan, a naval vessel quietly fulfilled a mission critical to the atomic program. The fate of the USS Indianapolis became one of the most tragic and least…...
The Liberty Bell wasn't called by that name until abolitionists named it 50 years after the revolution
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (849+ words) Published Apr 5, 2026 5: 00 AM PDT The Whitechapel Bell Foundry, one of the most prominent bell-making firms in England, cast the bell in London in 1752. Weighing more than a ton, it was shipped across the Atlantic to Philadelphia. Upon arrival, however, it…...