World War II

The contributions that servicewomen have made to the broader fight for women’s equality in the workplace has largely been...

William Vincent Astor's life was one of unenviable isolation and singularly strange circumstances.

In 2017, a civilian search team discovered the wreck of the USS Indianapolis in a 600-mile swathe of the Pacific Ocean. The...

An upcoming television adaptation might help make up for what the source material lacked when "The Tattooist of Auschwitz"...

The VA's head health operations officer sent a memo to regional health directors in February saying the photo depicted non...

Neither the United States nor Germany would end up completing an atomic bomb while the war in Europe raged, but the Allies...

The Seabees were created during World War II, because the Navy needed construction workers who could fight back.

Leap Day has a long history -- it's not something we all just arbitrarily decided to do one day.

Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal spent his life proving his now-famous photo wasn't staged.

Chivalry wasn't dead in 1938 when Nazi tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia. It lived on in at least one man: Josef Menčík, also...