During the Cold War, governments around the world continued to view zoos through an ideological lens. This was especially true in Berlin, where the city’s two zoos – one in the capitalist West, the ...

Long before the White House, he was fighting for survival in enemy waters. During WWII, a Japanese attack sank the patrol boat of a young naval officer—John F. Kennedy. This video dives into the ...

During the Second World War, atrocities and horrors took place all over Europe as country after country fell to the ...

Nobody could have suspected that it would end in extermination camps.” Those were the words of Jo Spier, a 24-year-old ...

Just 14 years old when his father died, 75-year-old Manasquan resident Paul Stalknecht recently had the opportunity, via the ...

Amid the larger fight against Japan in the Pacific, U.S. and Australian troops stationed in Brisbane clashed violently during what came to be known as the Battle of Brisbane. Tensions over American ...

Vietnam has been called the first “television” war. But it has also inspired generations of writers who have explored its ...

The women of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only all-Black Women's Army Corps unit to serve overseas in ...

The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the only one comprised of Black women to be sent overseas during World War ...

The only Black, all-female unit to serve in Europe during World War II, known as the “Six Triple Eight,” was honored Tuesday ...

Last man out. In 1946, shortly after leaping from a plummeting B-24 bomber and hiding in caves from Nazi patrols for six ...