The wealthiest college athletic conference ever to exist was founded in 1896, at the Chicago Loop's still-standing Palmer House hotel. From those quasi-humble origins sprang a behemoth—an 18-team ...

Alexandra Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst's "Ring of Fire: A New History of the World at War: 1914" sets itself a deceptively narrow task: to tell the story of the First World War’s outbreak through ...

Often a power cut would act like a bonus as everyone else in the family would leave everything they were doing aside and join us outsides, watting mosquitoes and swapping stories. The inky blankness ...

For over two years, Sudan has endured a brutal civil war which has divided towns and families across the African nation. The conflict, which the UN has labeled the “world’s largest humanitarian ...

John Luckadoo survived some of the most dangerous missions in World War II. As a member of the 100th Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force, he flew 25 bombing missions over Axis territory during the war.

Ivan Maisel’s new exploration of Notre Dame icon Frank Leahy might remind Sooner Nation a little of Barry Switzer.

Yang Huafeng, a 92-year-old Chinese army veteran is helped as he meets reporters at the memorial of the September 18th History Museum in Shenyang, northeastern China's Liaoning province, Tuesday, Aug.

Still reeling from the horrors of World War 1, France vowed never to be vulnerable to German invasion again. This determination led to the creation of the Maginot Line, one of the most imposing ...

On Oct. 26, 1942, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier the USS Hornet was sunk during pitched fighting in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. Strapped to the deck of the carrier was a farming tractor, ...

The traditional Italian observation—Se non è vero, è ben trovato (even if it isn't true, it makes a good story)—reflects a good deal of human history. One such colorful event was the 14th-century War ...

SHENYANG, China (AP) — Yang Huafeng, a 92-year-old Chinese army veteran, remembers the troops on horseback and the handful of planes that marked the founding of communist China in 1949. It was a far ...