Seeing the Stars and Stripes go up on Iwo Jima was one of the most powerful moments of my life. I’m sharing what it was like to witness history firsthand and what that day meant to all of us on the ...

One of the most intense and iconic battles of World War II, the Battle of Iwo Jima pushed both sides to their limits. In this ...

A 103-year-old Navy veteran in Rock Island was there when one of the most iconic World War II photos was taken. "I saw the flag raised on Iwo Jima," Henry Diedrich recalled of that February ...

Oregon Trail Days’ Kiddie Parade went off without a hitch Friday morning, with creative costumes and floats, giant inflatable ...

One of the most iconic photographs of WW2 taken by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press on February 23, 1945 won a Pulitzer ...

First Liberty Building & Loan, a Newnan operation owned by a family with deep roots in evangelical politics, was able to attract deep-pocketed investors with calls to patriotism and a good dose of ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A black-and-white photograph of four ...

Also known as "The Blue Angel Supper Club,'' an integrated nightclub founded in Manhattan in the early 1940s that hosted such ...

Art is subjective, but that does not make it immune to criticism. That very thought, though, placed actors Clint Eastwood and Spike Lee at odds nearly two ...

The legacy of Michal Strenk (Mykhal Strenk in Ruthenian or Michael Strank in English), a native of the Ruthenian village of Jarabina in eastern Slovakia who served in the US Army, is still relevant ...

But the boom was what one retired Army officer wanted. He wondered out loud why the Urbanna fireworks were cancelled. The ...

A faceless Statue of Liberty with flowing, black hair dons a colorful array of Indigenous tattoos. The white “Be Human” book ...