David Nasaw thinks we owe Brokaw’s (and Ambrose’s and Spielberg’s) tale-telling and its legacy a second, and much more gimlet ...

Between 1939 and 1945, over 30 countries participated in World War II, mobilizing around 100 million military personnel. The ...

Arguments about history are proliferating as the postwar order led by the United States crumbles. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. In September, China held a military parade to ...

Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...

Nan Goldin’s fearless photos, Noah Davis’s enchantments of ordinary life, Stan Douglas’s historical visions, and Yoko Ono’s ...

Eighty years after a traffic accident in postwar Germany fatally injured Gen. George S. Patton Jr., a small group gathered at ...

Holocaust museums and Jewish veterans’ groups objected to the move, which had not previously been explained, as distorting ...

The U.S. is participating in extrajudicial killings of people in the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean, claiming, without ...

London’s National Portrait Gallery's exhibition on Cecil Beaton's photography includes portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth ...

Comics books of the 1940s & 1950s often pushed boundaries...but did they cause juvenile misbehavior? Comic books of the 1940s and '50s often pushed boundaries. But did they cause juvenile misbehavior?

Stacker compiled a list of seven moments where Asian American and Black American solidarity paved the way for broad-stroke ...

On March 12, 1957, the actor Ronald Reagan, who was then serving as a spokesperson for General Electric, came to the Lehigh ...