The Washington, D.C., Evening Star reported Monday, Jan. 1, 1940, that “merry crowds” had gathered in the nation’s capital to ...

America’s landscape holds many reminders of World War II, echoing stories of courage, sacrifice, and resilience. From ...

Nov. 10, 1940: “41 degrees and dampness all day.” Monday, Nov. 11, 1940: “Turning into an old-time snowstorm … the worst storm since Oct. 14, 1880.” Andrew Anderson of Hutchinson ...

This is not exclusive to the Middle East – “map wars” are underway across the globe. Some of the more well-known examples ...

Trump seeks to establish the Monroe Doctrine over Greenland by acquiring it to deter China and Russia and speed up national ...

the world’s biggest platform for downloading open-source free and public domain ebooks. American spies used the manual when ...

Great Migrations: A People on The Move is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, ...

A metaphor for the dangers facing humanity, the clock is updated based on perceptions about how close humans are to destroying the world - with ... of nuclear war in the 1940s.

To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a new English-language map illustrates the ... site of Nazi atrocities during World War II. Approximately 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were ...

Itka Zygmuntowicz (1926–2020), Survivor of Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Death Camp (1940–1945 ... the primary threat to their new world order. The Nazi government enacted ...

Residents' tally of the historic snowstorm in Baton Rouge is in. The bottom line: certain parts of the city it reported more snow than any storm in history, except the vicious 1895 snowfall of ...