On their way west from France, the U.S. Army liberated numerous towns in the spring of 1945 and cleared the path for the end of World War II.

A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa. The suicide attack instantly killed the pilot, but none of ...

Webpages celebrating Jackie Robinson and other minority American service members were removed by an administration that insists diversity is a weakness.

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

Ramstein Air Base, America's largest military airfield overseas, is located in Western Germany. Trump is threatening a ...

Smekodub, who moved to the United States from Ukraine when she was nine, is married to a Russian, Alexii Chankov, who ...

Jackie Robinson served in the US Army during World War II. Rachel Robinson ... round of white supremacists 78 years after he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball.

The Trump administration’s erasures are a deliberate whitewash of inconvenient American historical truths to create its ...

The Village Voice looks at "phantom utopias," lies told by today's despots to conjure memories of great autocratic times that never existed.

Raised in a Chicago suburb, Simanton said he was always interested in ships, models and World War II. Model ships served an important military purpose. “The U.S. Navy contracted to have models ...

Robinson, who served as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army during World War II, broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947 when he debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers. One of the most ...

Trump’s threats of a takeover have put Greenland on the geopolitical map. At a pivotal moment, we travel to the resource-rich Arctic island to make sense of the hype ...