In June 1775 in Machias, Maine (then part of Massachusetts), townspeople refused to provide the British with lumber to build barracks for their troops, resulting in the British bringing in the armed ...

Danny Ferris has spent large parts of the past two years traveling the world — not just as a student at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, N.Y., but as a sailor on real-life, high-seas ...

The Trump administration is invoking a decades-old trade law with roots in the second Continental Congress amid its immigration push. Meant to protect the country's merchant marines, immigration ...

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem failed to inspire the United States Coast Guard Academy after reciting a poem before their clash against the US Merchant Marine Academy on Saturday. The ...