# US Navy
A Memorable History of Deception and Spy Capers
Deception and creative misdirection are vital elements of espionage and warfare. From planting fake information for foes to find and…
Fascinating and Lesser Known People Who Changed American History
American history is littered with names of great people. But what about the lesser-known people who shaped American history? Monticello,…
Quirky Founding Fathers and Other Bonkers Bits of American History
Nowadays, many look around and cannot help but wonder at how bonkers America seems to have gotten. Perhaps they should…
Incompetence That Shaped History
Did you know that one of Napoleon’s most crushing defeats was caused by hapless underlings, who mistakenly blew up a…
America Accidentally Attacked the Soviet Union and Other Lesser Known History Moments
During the Cold War, the two global superpowers often fought each other via proxies. The Soviets bled us with the…
The Town That Got Away With Murder and Other Largely Forgotten Historic Events
In 1981, the people of tiny Skidmore, Missouri (pop. 441 then, about 280 now) got together to figure out what…
How Britain’s Royal Navy lost the American Revolutionary War
Great Britain, an island nation, depended on trade to feed its population and fuel its economy. Its colonial empire was…
Mistakes That Helped Shape U.S. into What it Is Today
Countries, like people, are the sum total of the experiences encountered en route to the present, be such experiences good,…
These Facts Will Alter the Perception of Historical Timelines
There are history’s broad outlines, known to many, and there are history’s minor details, known mostly just to history buffs.…
Researchers Used Secret Methods to Locate this Mysterious Japanese Submarine Lost in WWII
During the Cold War, advanced deep water detection was almost an exclusively military preserve. That began to change in the…