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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Want to learn more? See our newsletter page here. (CNN) – In the winter of 1944, as some of the bloodiest fighting in World War II ramped up in Europe, 19-year-old then-1st Sgt. Jefferson Wiggins, ...

The visitors center at the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial in Margraten. (Rob Engelaar/Getty Images) The Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial in Margraten, the only American military ...

A memorial recognizing Black WWII soldiers was quietly taken down at a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands. Dutch media reports that two informational panels about African American soldiers in ...

In 1944, the all-Black 960th Quartermaster Service Company was given a horrific task: build the Netherlands American Cemetery at Margraten. They dug graves by hand in frozen ground, burying over ...