Martin Reid found the letters and photographs wedged within an antique desk just before the 80th anniversary of VE Day ...

On the daylong Living History Cruise, visitors can tour the galley, sleeping quarters, navigation center and museum spaces, while listening to live music from a barbershop quartet down on the dock and ...

Sweeping deserts, tank battles, and legendary generals - The North African Campaign was one of WWII’s most dramatic and ...

Dumb Things In The Big Bang Theory That Everyone Ignores ‘Ridiculous prices’ blamed for slump in Las Vegas visitor numbers ...

80 years after his death, North Dakota World War II serviceman's remains identified Remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Irvin C. Ellingson, who died in a Tokyo military prison fire in 1945 ...

On Africa's dry western tip, Mauritania has become an unlikely staging post for Ukraine's increasingly global struggle with its adversary Russia.

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

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.

Ancient Africa's Climate Was Unexpectedly Rainy, Muddying the Story of Early Humans Learn why the idea of an ancient African drying period is now being challenged and what this means for the story of ...

What spaces and places built memories for you, Minnesota? Share them with the North Star Story Map Over time, the goal is to create a people’s history of Minnesota, as told through its buildings ...

Northern Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine are in the forecasted view line to potentially see the northern lights for both tonight and tomorrow as of 9 a.m. on June 24.

Oversight was loosened as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before the floods, a review ...