New York's Mayor Eric Adams has more in common with the leaders of Vichy France's Marshall Pétain than a telling word choice.

In 1941, the formation of the first group of Black military pilots and mechanics was underway in Tuskegee, Alabama where ...

Maria Orosa is not just a street in Manila but should be remembered as the name of a World War II heroine associated with a famous Filipino food invention: Banana ketchup. In the website “Lady Science ...

An antidiscrimination lawsuit on her behalf helped lead to one of the first multiracial track teams in the Midwest.

Eighty years ago, 700 soldiers started an uphill battle — literally — as they scaled the walls of Riva Ridge in Italy to ...

US Marines launched a scathing attack on Iwo Jima island during World War II. Capturing the island, about eight kilometres ...

This year marks the quincentenary of the publication of First Voyage Around the World, 1519-1522: An Account of Ferdinand ...