ALTON - As a World War II Prisoner of War, Alton native Robert Ryan traded his Marquette Catholic High School class ring for ...

It was longer than any bombing campaign during World War II or any other war that came before; it remains the longest bombing ...

JAKARTA, April 23 (Xinhua) -- In April 1955, a landmark conference in Indonesia's city of Bandung gathered 29 Asian and African nations under the flag of solidarity, friendship and cooperation, ...

The Elbe Day picture captured American and Russian armies uniting against the Nazis – and cemented two Jewish soldiers in ...

A Concord man is making sure that the contributions of people of color during the Revolutionary War do not go unnoticed.

Harvard University announced Monday that it was suing to halt a federal freeze on more than $2.2 billion in grants after the institution said it would defy the Trump administration’s ...

The event is stirring memories of an exhibition in 1970, when the postwar Japanese economy was taking off and “you could have dreams about the future.” ...

From the last two-story outhouse in the U.S. to an actual fork in the road, here are New York's top roadside attractions — ...

On April 12, 1861, the Civil War erupted with the firing on Fort Sumter by the Confederacy. Confederate Vice President ...

The barrier-breaking baseball Hall of Famer is buried at the Cypress Hills Cemetery, just off the parkway bearing his name.

None of that is immediately evident when first stepping into “BOOM: Art and Design of the 1940s” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which greets visitors with a 1940 “Patriot Radio” by industrial ...

“You often need a martyr or someone very committed to act first,” Margaret Levi, a professor emerita of political science at ...