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 ...

During World War II, as bombs fell on Scotland, a refill sherry cask of Glenlivet was quietly filled at the distillery.

Midway Village Museum hosts World War II Days Sept. 27–28 with battles, lectures, vintage tanks and reenactors from nine nations.

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 ...

Public ceremony to honor Sgt. Harold M. Weaver, who died in combat on Okinawa in 1945. His remains recently were identified ...