In November, Franklin Roosevelt won his third term as U.S. president. This broke something called the Washington precedent — a norm that the very first U.S. president, George Washington, set when he ...

After the stock market crash in 1929, thirteen million people were out of work. This triggered the Great Depression, which lasted through the late 1930s. The worldwide economic devastation that ensued ...

The air raids by German Luftwaffe planes on English cities and towns in 1940 and 1941—attacks known collectively and famously as the Blitz—were terrifying, but they failed in their key aim: namely, to ...

A hangar in the Boulder Airport will be transformed into a vintage nightclub a la Rick’s Cafe Americain in “Casablanca” on June 16 for the fourth annual 1940s World War II Era Ball. The event will ...

On June 18, 2019, LNP celebrated its 225th anniversary. The earliest newspaper to which today’s LNP traces its roots was the Lancaster Journal, first published on June 18, 1794, by William Hamilton ...

World War II was certainly a defining era in U.S. history and in the lives of the generation which came of age then. But for Jane Leder, it was the change in relationships between men and women that ...

In early World War II, on Nov. 30, 1939, a Soviet-Russian army invaded Finland in a surprise massive attack. The Finns were eventually outnumbered nearly 3-to-1. The population of the Soviet Union in ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from The History Channel: Battle of Britain - World War II 1940 A flight combat game that takes place during the Battle of Britain in 1940, World War II ...