(Photo: US Navy)It’s not unusual for warships to change hands. When belligerent powers lose wars , they sometimes forfeit warships as prizes. And victorious powers may sell off the...  ....The Confederacy commissioned the construction of warsh...

(Image credit: National Archives)Lyndon Baines Joh...  ...d point to as the result of it—the Vietnam War .But here, we're choosing to remember Johnson not...  ...ious passenger automobile ever mass-produced for civilians . His Presidential Buzzer (Image credit: LBJ Pres...  ...the Oval Office so that the...

1. Producer Sherwood Schwartz designed the chara...  ...the idiotic Gilligan around? Because during World War II, Gilligan saved the Skipper’s life. In t...  ...movie in which the castaways learn that a nuclear war has destroyed human civilization . Bob Denver (Gilligan)...

When the famous bank robber Willie Sutton was aske...  ...As the German army rolled through Europe in World War II, it ransacked the banks of other countries, tr...  ...Lebanese capital of Beirut was in the throes of a civil war . Palestinian guerrilla groups had gained control...

(Image: Wit Studio)Attack on Titan is an anime ser...  ...ant to show your love for the destroyers of human civilization ? Try this playfully romantic cake on the next Val...  ...eed would probably be an excellent soldier in the war against the titans.So would Korra from The Legend...

(If the CSA won World War I by Jordan)Alternate history is a genre of specu...  ...y is set in our own historical timeline for World War II and is thus historical fiction. Harry Turtledo...  ...world in which the Axis powers prevailed in that war and is thus alternate history.Al...

(The Monitor vs. The Merrimac by Louis Prang &...  ...imac by Louis Prang & Co.)During the American Civil War , the US Navy blockaded Southern ports and largely...  ...most effective naval effort of the South was the warships that it sent far out to sea to capture and destro...  ...ged the Union economy...

In the United States, the name of Benedict Arnold...  ...of the great heroes of the American Revolutionary War . There would be towns, counties and schools named...  ...general in the New York State Militia during the Civil War , erected the monument in 1887. Perhaps de Peyster...

It's Sam Houston (1793-1863), a man who lived an e...  ...ield fame under General Andrew Jackson during the War of 1812. Cultivated by Jackson, Houston rose in T...  ...were preparing for what they saw as an inevitable civil war in order to preserve slavery.Houston defended sla...  ...slavery, but adamantly oppo...

(Texas Military Forces Museum)It can be hard to de...  ...cisely which is the first or last engagement of a war or what qualifies as a battle. But one can plausi...  ...usibly argue that the last battle of the American Civil War was the Battle of Palmito Ranch. This event occur...  ...Maj. Gen. John G. Walker, r...