Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...

she was accepted into the Army Reserve. She was one of just 500 Black nurses to serve during World War II, out of a total of 50,000 — a result of government caps that kept thousands more Black ...

Connecticut native Morton N. Katz, a WWII combat veteran who became a lawyer and represented needy clients in criminal cases ...

Leftenant, who had served as a fighter pilot — one of the Tuskegee Airmen — during World War II ... of an Army nurse. “She was striking, standing proud in her starched white uniform ...

CHICAGO - As a kid growing up in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood on the south side, Lt. Col. Brandon Singleton, Finance Officer, 85th U.S. Army Reserve ...

Janice Gavern lives to tell the story of her sister soldiers and to ensure their history will be remembered. Gavern, a ...

But her plans to sign up as a military nurse ... World War II soldiers in a segregated ward. “Even when everything was literally stacked up against her, she stood proud, put that uniform on ...

Instead of congratulating the congresswoman, numerous conservative influencers chose to mock and falsely accuse her ...

Libertarians, in particular, use this value to contest the proposed laws against hate speech. Apparently they’d prefer the vilification of Jews and all its potential con­sequences to the limitation of ...

Lodge in boutique hotels, check out the food scene, and learn about art and American history with a visit to one of the best ...

It’s disconcerting to see a general cry — especially one with four stars on his shoulders. But Lloyd W. “Fig” Newton — one of just seven African-Americans to wear four stars in U.S. military history — ...