The Greatest Books reveals: "Set in 19th-century Russia, this novel revolves around the life of Anna Karenina, a high-society ...

A Woonsocket native who was wounded driving a boat full of soldiers onto Omaha Beach on D-Day will receive an award the World ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.

Carlsbad’s Nancy Stratford, now 106, is the last survivor of the 25 American women pilots who served in the Royal Air Force’s ...

Eighty years after a U.S. airman went missing in World War II, his family has received a token to remember him by.

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Tracy Slater, author of "Together in Manzanar," which tells the true story of a family of ...

In 1944, the USS Harder, a Gato-class submarine, embarked on a series of remarkable missions, sinking four Japanese ...

Books are a haven that help us escape the harsh edges of our lives, but every once in a while, we come across one that ...

No look at the American Revolution would be complete unless it included a trip to Tennessee’s oldest town for another walk through “Rock Hill,” also know as the Old Jonesborough ...

The veteran war photojournalist Don McCullin recently made some headlines when he said that he felt like he’d been “stealing other people’s suffering with my camera,” and that the work he did was “a ...