A Salute to the Volunteer Corps - The Army Historical Foundation
The Army Historical Foundation recently hosted its annual appreciation breakfast for the National Army Museum’s Volunteer Corps.| The Army Historical Foundation
By Alex Kershaw. New York: Dutton-Penguin Random House, 2024. ISBN 978-0-593-18377-9. Photographs. Maps. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Pp. 345. $32.00. One may muse, “not another book about General Patton!” What more is there […] The post Patton’s Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II Review appeared first on The Army Historical Foundation.| The Army Historical Foundation
By Beth Bailey. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. ISBN 978-1-4696-7326-4. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. 341. $35.00. In her 2009 book America’s Army, Beth Bailey probed both the origins […] The post An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era Review appeared first on The Army Historical Foundation.| The Army Historical Foundation
Visit the Jason Russell House and Museum to learn more about The Battle of Menotomy, in present day Arlington, MA, which saw the most intense fighting of 19 April 1775. The post Jason Russell House & Museum, Arlington, Massachusetts appeared first on The Army Historical Foundation.| The Army Historical Foundation
By Paris Davis with Theo Emery. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2025. ISBN 978-1-250-38765-3. Photographs. Notes. Index. Pp. 256. $30.00. Colonel Paris Davis’s account of his life is much more […] The post Every Weapon I Had: A Vietnam Vet’s Long Road to the Medal of Honor Review appeared first on The Army Historical Foundation.| The Army Historical Foundation
By David Chrisinger. New York: Penguin Press, 2023. ISBN 978-1-9848-8131-1. Photographs. Appendix. Pp. 379. $30.00. In The Soldier’s Truth, author David Chrisinger presents a multi-layered account. There’s the backdrop of the […] The post The Soldier’s Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II Review appeared first on The Army Historical Foundation.| The Army Historical Foundation
Take a journey through days of yore with this issue’s Army Almanac, featuring thirty-plus important dates in Army history. The post Army Almanac – Volume 30 Number 3 appeared first on The Army Historical Foundation.| The Army Historical Foundation
The Museum is just part of its larger mission to preserve and present the history of the Army. The post Taking our Mission Beyond the Museum appeared first on The Army Historical Foundation.| The Army Historical Foundation
In this issue, On Point begins its commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and the U.S. Army, with articles on Revolutionary War Artwork, the Battles of Lexington and Concord, John Stark, the Charleville Musket, and Call to Arms: The New Soldier and the Revolutionary War, a new temporary exhibit at the National Museum of the U.S. Army. The post On Point 2025 Volume 30 Issue 2 appeared first on The Army Historical Foundation.| The Army Historical Foundation
By William Dennis Hitler’s goal in the December 1944 German counteroffensive through the Ardennes in southern Belgium and Luxembourg was to break through the American lines and take control of The post German Failure on the North Shoulder: The Ardennes, December 1944 appeared first on The Army Historical Foundation.| The Army Historical Foundation
CALL TO Arms: The Soldier and the Revolutionary War—has officially opened to the public. The post Call to Arms – The Soldier and the Revolutionary War appeared first on The Army Historical Foundation.| The Army Historical Foundation
The Army Historical Foundation recently hosted its annual appreciation breakfast for the National Army Museum’s Volunteer Corps.| The Army Historical Foundation
On 20 July 1807, congressmen, department heads, military officers, and others gathered at a small, 4.5-acre cemetery in Square 1115 of Washington City, the fledgling capital of the new nation.| The Army Historical Foundation
After years of growing tensions between Great Britain and its North American colonies, on 19 April 1775, open hostilities erupted when British regulars and Massachusetts militiamen clashed at Lexington and […]| The Army Historical Foundation
By Major Glenn F. Williams, USA-Ret., Ph.D. Following the destruction of British East India Company tea in Boston Harbor in December 1773, and the heavy-handed response of the British government […]| The Army Historical Foundation
Since its beginning, the U.S. Army, like all other armies of the world, has relied on animals to perform a variety of tasks throughout its history. For many decades, horses and mules served as the primary means of transporting soldiers, artillery, and supplies, whether as cavalry mounts or as draft animals.| The Army Historical Foundation
Notre Dame Stadium was packed with fans for the 1937 season finale against the Fighting Irish’s arch rival, the University of Southern California. With the score tied as the game approached the final […]| The Army Historical Foundation
