A quick visual tour of the Liberation of Paris, using Google Earth to show major landmarks, resistance movements, and the Allied advance that freed the city in 1944. Donald Trump issues new threat to ...

A central Pennsylvania WWll veteran has joined the ranks of such notables as Gen. George Patton, President Dwight Eisenhower, ...

Our friend and comrade Mitch Abidor recently spent weeks in France tracking down people who came of age politically in May 1968, to ask them how they viewed that experience, then and now. He went out ...

Operation Cowboy stands as one of only two documented occasions during World War II when U.S. and Wehrmacht forces fought ...

She ensured the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park included contributions of Black men and women.

A recent report focuses on the death toll and on the burial site of the victims, stressing the importance of telling their stories.

In order to march on Antwerp, the German Wehrmacht needed to first capture Freyneux—and the US Army stopped it in its tracks.

The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at ...

World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...

During the bloody battle for Hurtgen Forest in late 1944, a 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield. Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld ordered his men not to ...

Some of the nation’s most prestigious colleges have been enrolling record numbers of low-income students as campuses prioritize economic diversity in the wake of a ban on affirmative action.