Construction of the Washington commenced at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, where her keel was laid down on June 14, 1938.

Iowa-class battleships measured 887 feet long and displaced 58,460 tons, with crews ranging from 2,500 during WWII to 1,573 during later wars.

With two bottles before her—one of wine, one of water—the Prohibition-era ceremony unfolded in front of a red-draped steel colossus poised to become the world's mightiest battleship.

The 2004 graduates' careers range from Olympic athletes to movie directors, and medical professionals to comedians.

The Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds both announced Saturday Class of 2025 Hall of Famer Dave Parker passed away.

CONCORD, N.H. — Immigrants rights’ advocates today filed a new nationwide class-action lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship. The lawsuit is ...

Jacobin sat down with former labor secretary Robert Reich to talk about his new documentary, The Last Class, democratic socialism, and why we’re possibly in an even more unequal Gilded Age than the ...

“The Last Class” is an account of the final semester taught by economist, author, former labor secretary, and longtime Berkeley professor Robert Reich, who retired from academia in 2022 after 17 years ...