This fascinating World War I artifact reveals the ingenuity of early aerial gunnery training. With major powers establishing ground-based setups to teach pilots and gunners, this modified Vickers gun ...

The first day of the Battle of the Somme, in northern France, was the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army and one of the most infamous days of World War One. On 1 July 1916, the British ...

Newark Advocate history columnist Doug Stout, of the Licking County Library, tells the story of World War I veteran and ...

Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot’s license. Coleman grew up in a cruel world of poverty and discrimination. She ...