The tribute honors African American pilots who broke barriers during World War II. At a time when the military was still ...

From the outside, Charles “Chuck” Blemler’s home looks like any other, but inside is a living museum: hand-carved wood figures, woven baskets, artifacts from another century. And tucked within those ...

The series returns with two installments, ‘East’ and ‘West,’ that focus on specialists in silversmithing, saddle-making and ...

David Nasaw thinks we owe Brokaw’s (and Ambrose’s and Spielberg’s) tale-telling and its legacy a second, and much more gimlet ...

For more than a century, this Black soldier from Virginia was remembered by nearly no one. Then this year, someone at the ...

Three years after Connecticut became the third state to require Asian American and Pacific Islander history in K-12 education ...

Holocaust museums and Jewish veterans’ groups objected to the move, which had not previously been explained, as distorting ...

Our efforts bore fruit. In 1991, President George H. W. Bush posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor to Corporal Freddie ...

WASHINGTON — The remains of a U.S. Army soldier from Parkersburg who was killed in France during World War II have been identified more than eight decades later, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency ...

During the bloody battle for Hurtgen Forest in late 1944, a 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield. Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld ordered his men not to ...

Japanese Americans are seeing parallels between the government’s incarceration of their families during World War II and the current detention of Latinos. By Jill Cowan Jill Cowan grew up in the ...

The suspect in the Washington, D.C., shooting that critically wounded two National Guard members was an Afghan national who served alongside U.S. troops in Afghanistan, officials and a relative say.