SPARTA, Mich. (WOOD) — Hundreds of people gathered at the newly renamed Lamoreaux Brothers Veterans Memorial Park in Sparta on Memorial Day to rededicate the town’s “Shorty’s Monument” honoring local ...

SPARTA, Wis. (WKBT) -- Memorial Day celebrations took place in Sparta Monday morning. Veterans from all over were invited to walk in the city's annual Memorial Day parade beginning at Howard Huff Park ...

A tough military society, Sparta had its own secret service, the Crypteia, specially trained young men for covert operations ...

The Peloponnesian War shows how fear, ambition, and mistrust can escalate into full-scale conflict. Thucydides’ trap helps us ...

Riding a bike without training wheels. Scaling a climbing wall. Doing a headstand. All were activities 19-year-old Alex Gaunky of Sparta, Wis., feared at different points of his life. And failed at ...

Athens and Sparta were two very different societies, yet the two legendary city-states hold priceless historic value for ...

Many self-professed champions of freedom throughout the centuries have looked to ancient Sparta as an inspiration. The doomed stand of 300 Spartan warriors against the Persian Empire at Thermopylae in ...

SPARTA, Mich. — As the clock hit 0:00, ending a junior varsity basketball game between Sparta and Thornapple Kellogg high schools, dozens of people representing Sparta's Class of 1968 sat behind the ...