In the summer of 1776, when the 56 delegates of the Thirteen Colonies signed the United States’ Declaration of Independence, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The USS Sampson docks at the Amador International Cruise Terminal in Panama City on Sept. 2, 2025. Daniel Gonzalez/Anadolu via ...

Just like the old, clichéd saying goes, “The two happiest days in a sailor’s life are the day he buys his boat, and the day he sells it.” And it appears John John Florence is doing the latter, now, as ...

To mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, we’re cataloging 25 objects that define the country’s history. In 1776, during the Revolutionary War, the gunboat USS Philadelphia sank in the ...

In this important and well-reasoned study, a former Bush administration official audaciously takes on the academic orthodoxy to defend three U.S. military interventions in the Caribbean basin.

Scudding through New York Harbor amid bobbing sailboats, looming fuel barges and the orange-hulled Staten Island Ferry, Brian Cohen's $2.5 million Gunboat 55 catamaran is an island of calm. Guests sip ...

A wannabe emperor goes in search of an empire. Any day now, a US Navy strike force, led by the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, will join an armada of war ships already positioned off the coast of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Close to 200 years after first being used to assert geopolitical dominance, gunboat ...