Lou Gehrig was still in college and the NFL was called the American Professional Football Association. It was also the year ...

Hidden in a World War II bunker near New Orleans, Tulane stores more than 8 million preserved fish — and the collection is ...

The project’s promoters present the plan as a way to turn what they describe as a destructive war into an economic ...

Asian shares were mostly lower in thin holiday trading as China staged military exercises near the island of Taiwan. The ...

Eighty years since the end of World War II, the British are recalling many battles fought on the path to victory. Yet one ...

The 21st century battleships would be as different from the Iowa-class battleships of World War II as those warships were ...

Thank you, Bryce Mitchell, for becoming the first person brave enough to discuss World War 2. It’s unfortunate that “every ...

Saving Private Ryan is now streaming for free, so there’s no reason to miss every iconic moment — from the Normandy invasion ...

On Sept. 2, 1945, the official end of World War II came to pass with Japan’s signing of the Instrument of Surrender aboard ...

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

World War II history buffs can learn new details at a talk called "The War Within a War," about the intense rivalries between ...

Amid the hardships of the war, Christmas dinner became an annual reprieve for far-flung troops across the globe.