The Battle of Calabria, fought on July 9, 1940, was a key naval engagement between the British Mediterranean Fleet and the ...

While the massive invasion of the Benelux countries and France was going down last week, things were also developing on the ...

China had been invaded by Japan in 1931—the first sign of war—and 1937. And the United States did not get active. And finally ...

In my writing career over the past 26 years, I have consistently been drawn to stories with high stakes – the highest being ...

In “The Wounded Generation” and “1942,” the historians David Nasaw and Peter Fritzsche show how civilians struggled with the ...

Many Arkansans are familiar with Edward Payson Washbourne's 1856 painting called "The Arkansas Traveler." In succeeding years ...

There is not a major Democratic political figure in his now 79-year-old lifespan who escapes discussion and analysis. Sanders ...

On Dec. 9, 1941, two days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Vultee Vice President of Production D. I. Caroll boasted that the plane manufacturer's Nashville division had increased productivity by two ...

Eden Camp and Pickering 1940s weekend begins today (October 11) and the whole weekend is packed with events including train rides, guided walks, a display of military vehicles all supported by 1940s ...

Tortured by the Gestapo, this brave Protestant pastor continued to help people in peril at great personal cost.

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — A Tucson man is celebrating his 90th birthday with a journey that rolls through both time and memory. ...

There are in Europe a few rara avis territories whose current status is the result of historical peculiarities. One of them ...