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.

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 ...

They were three of the eight individuals portrayed by current Wood County residents Wendy Guion, Geoff Howes, and Anderson ...

SHARES HIS SECRET TO A LONG LIFE. THIS IS KEN MAHER. PRIVATE IN THE US ARMY HERE. WORLD WAR TWO. KEN MAHER STROLLS INTO YET ANOTHER BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR HIS FELLOW ASIAN AMERICAN COMRADES WITH THE GUNG ...

A painting, Giuseppe Ghislandi's 'Portrait of a Lady,' looted by the Nazis during World War II, has been recovered in Argentina after 80 years. The artwork was identified in an online real estate ...

At Beijing’s Victory Day parade, President Xi Jinping sought more than just a display of military might. The event was also used to project China as the world’s leading power undercutting the United ...

WORLD WAR TWO ENDED IN THE PACIFIC, AND SOMETHING YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW. A LOUISIANA PRIEST WAS CAPTURED WHILE SERVING OVERSEAS AND NEVER MADE IT HOME. HERE’S THE STORY OF FATHER LAFLEUR AND HIS JOURNEY ...

Thousands celebrate in Albany's Capitol Park on Aug. 14, 1945, after Japan announced its intent to surrender. The front page of the Times Union on Sept. 2, 1945, the day of Japan's formal surrender, ...

But the ceremonies also provide insight into how dictatorships operate. Truth is intolerable to autocracies, which thrive off coercion and misinformation. Indeed, the entire commemoration was ...