For almost two years in the 1940s, the federal government exercised strict control over such weather reports, a World War II-era precaution that caused unexpected havoc on the home front, including on ...

Our first in-house map was produced during World War I. By the Second World War, the White House was asking for them by name.

In 1942, as World War 2 was blazing across the globe, the island of Madagascar became the center of a high-stakes game of cat and mouse between the Axis and Allied powers. The Vichy French-controlled ...

A fast, accessible breakdown of why Italy underperformed in World War II. This video traces Mussolini’s ambitions and early campaigns, the disasters in Greece and North Africa, and the collapse that ...