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Andy Rooney's Decades-Long Feud With George S. Patton | June 29, 2023
From the Titanic, Anne Frank and the Titan — The One Family With Ties to Them All | June 23, 2023
Mamma Mia! Sky Eatery Deafens Waterloo Visitors With ABBA, Dance Music | June 20, 2023
'The duty to respect is different than the duty to protect': A Return to Normandy | June 6, 2023
Let’s Debunk the 3 Biggest Myths of D-Day | June 5, 2023
Hitler Had Terrible Teeth — Just Ask His Dentist | May 18, 2023
Death By Dentures? John McCain Sr.’s WWII Battles with Teeth, Toilets | March 10, 2023
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'Oh the places [Private Snafu] will go': How Dr. Seuss Took On Germany With Cartoons | May 4, 2023
From Gallipoli to Beyond the Grave — Hear the Oldest Surviving Voice From World War I | May 2, 2023
‘Why? I mean, we won’: The Century-Long Battle Over This Confederate Flag | April 27, 2023
First He Castrated Himself. Then He Assassinated a US President. | April 24, 2023
Once the ‘Cinderella Man,’ Boxer (and Manager) Later Enlisted in WWII | April 6, 2023
Mark Twain Fought for the South in the Civil War. He Lasted 2 Weeks Before He Quit. | April 4, 2023
Who’s Really in This Iconic Vietnam War Photo? | March 29, 2023
The 5 'Dumbest' Moments in History — That Actually Changed History | March 28, 2023
Josephine Baker Becomes First Black Woman Inducted Into the French Panthéon | December 2, 2021
‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life’: That One Time British Sailors Sang Monty Python as They Watched Their Ship Burn | November 29, 2021
Army cadets raid Annapolis, steal the wrong goat from Navy | November 24, 2021
Lest We Forget… the Handbrake: British Vets Crash Armored Vehicle into Village Memorial on Armistice Day | November 18, 2021
Earthquake Reveals Iwo Jima ‘Ghost’ Ships | November 5, 2021
Sitting Bull’s Living Descendant Confirmed With New DNA Tech | November 4, 2021
The Brush-Off Club: How Jilted G.I.’s Coped with Jody During WWII | October 28, 2021
This Nazi-Era Nut Cake Survived an RAF Bombing Raid — and Is Perfectly Preserved Today | October 27, 2021
USC to Award Posthumous Degrees to Japanese American Students Whose Studies Were Cut Short During WWII | October 25, 2021
Graphic Series Honors Korean War Hero Who Single-Handedly Stopped a Chinese Assault | October 12, 2021
Germany Agrees to Pay an Additional $767 Million to Holocaust Survivors | October 8, 2021
Anti-Semitic Graffiti Found Spray-Painted on Barracks at Auschwitz-Birkenau | October 6, 2021
A 96-Year-Old Female Defendant Just Went on the Run to Avoid Trial for Nazi War Crimes | October 1, 2021
The Slowest Heist in History: The Hijacking of Alexander the Great’s Body | October 1, 2021
The Dancing Plague of 1518: History’s Oddest Epidemic | September 27, 2021
Gen. Robert E. Lee Statue — Nation’s Largest Remaining Confederate Tribute — To Be Removed | September 7, 2021
From the ‘Big House’ to the Battlefield: Heisman Winner Tom Harmon’s War | August 31, 2021
‘Digital Dunkirk’: How Social Media was Used to Evacuate Afghan Allies | August 26, 2021
Spymaster ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan’s WWI Exploits Profiled in Graphic Novel | August 23, 2021
The Real Story Behind That Iconic Saigon Evacuation Photograph | August 21, 2021
Over a Century Later, Harlem Hellfighters to be Awarded Congressional Gold Medal | August 16, 2021
German History Teacher Finds Secret Cache of Nazi Artifacts in Family Home | August 12, 2021
The American Woman Who Sculpted New Faces for the Battle Scarred Warriors of WWI | August 11, 2021
100-Year-Old to Stand Trial For Alleged Nazi War Crimes | August 9, 2021
Politics and the Pandemic Exact Another Toll: Battle Reenactments Are on the Wane | August 3, 2021
Families Urge Pentagon to Use DNA Testing for Unidentified Pearl Harbor Remains | August 2, 2021
How the Smallpox Epidemic Led to the First Vaccine Passport | July 29, 2021
The History of Political Protests at the Olympic Games | July 28, 2021
From Blurring Imperfections to Falsifying Reality: How Stalin Made the Truth Disappear Through ‘Photoshop’ | July 23, 2021
Watch Matt Damon and Adam Driver Face Off in ‘The Last Duel’ | July 20, 2021
Graphic Novel Series Honors Korean War Hero Who Single-Handedly Stopped a Chinese Assault | July 19, 2021
It’s Shark Week! Learn How to Repel those Fearsome Fish Courtesy of Julia Child’s WWII ‘Recipe’ | July 15, 2021
The Legendary B-17 Bomber’s First Combat Mission Was an Abject Failure | July 14, 2021
Can One Trace the Phrase ‘Whole Nine Yards’ to WWII? Kind of… | July 8, 2021
Syndrome K — The ‘Disease’ that Saved Lives During WWII | July 6, 2021
Champagne and Hot Dogs: How the Allies Celebrated the Fourth of July During WWI | July 1, 2021
How a Local Breakfast Club is Connecting With Thousands of Veterans Across America | June 21, 2021
How Father's Day Traces its Roots to One Civil War Veteran | June 17, 2021
After Decades-Long Mystery, War Criminal Tojo’s Remains Revealed | June 14, 2021
Dr. Eleanor Ardel Vietti, the Only American Woman Who Remains Unaccounted for from the Vietnam War | June 11, 2021
Last Surviving Red Army Soldier Who Helped Liberate Auschwitz Dies at 98 | June 7, 2021
The Coast Guard’s Only Medal of Honor Recipient Used a Higgins Boat to Shield Marines on Guadalcanal | June 7, 2021
This Veteran-Run Company is Streamlining the Way Vets Access Care | June 3, 2021
Nation’s Largest Confederate Memorial, Stone Mountain, to Get New Exhibit Explaining the Site’s ‘whole story’ | May 25, 2021
Marine Vietnam Veterans Recreate ‘Then and Now’ Photograph 50 Years After the Original | May 21, 2021
Building the ‘Master Race’: Nazi Women Were Awarded Medals To Bear Children | May 19, 2021
Surviving Members of Hitler’s Third Reich Speak in Chilling New Documentary ‘Final Account’ | May 18, 2021
Putting for Pride: Three 100-Year-Old Marines Celebrate their Birthdays with a Fierce Round of Golf | May 14, 2021
‘War Remains’: WWI Museum’s Latest Virtual Reality Experience Takes Viewers into the Trenches | May 12, 2021
This Famous Bathtub Has Met its Waterloo | May 7, 2021
The First Chinese-American Officer in Marine Corps History Saved 8,000 Lives at the ‘Frozen Chosin’ | May 3, 2021
‘When You’re in the Middle of a Revolution but the Beat is Pure Fire’: The History of ‘The Spirit of ’76’ Meme | April 26, 2021
‘The Sistine Chapel of Apache religion’: Tribe Fighting to Save its Sacred Land | April 22, 2021
Decades-Long Mystery Surrounding Harriet Tubman’s Maryland Home Solved, Archaeologists Say | April 21, 2021
‘Fighting Joe’: Do We Owe the Moniker ‘Hookers’ to the Union General? | April 21, 2021
Two Reports Find that France Bears ‘serious and overwhelming’ Responsibility for Rwandan Genocide | April 19, 2021
How Communist Propaganda Efforts Helped this American POW in Vietnam | April 16, 2021
Humor Out at Sea: The Naval Tradition of Zapping | April 14, 2021
George Washington and a Gang of Revolutionary War Veterans Racked Up an Impressive Bar Tab to Celebrate America | April 9, 2021
Nation’s Oldest Medal of Honor Recipient Dies at 99 | April 9, 2021
Group Steals Confederate Monument, Threatens to Turn it into a Porta John | April 8, 2021
Wreck of USS Johnston Discovered 77 Years After its Sinking at the Battle of Leyte Gulf | April 2, 2021
How a One-Armed Outfielder Became an Inspiration to Wounded WWII Veterans | April 1, 2021
John Shelby, the Chip-Toothed Cowboy Turned Combat Soldier | March 30, 2021
National WWI Museum and Memorial Now Has Great War GIFs for Every Occasion | March 25, 2021
This War Correspondent Was the First to Report V-E Day — He Was Then Fired for It | March 24, 2021
Once a College Football Star, this Soldier was Recognized by his Captor on the Bataan Death | March 22, 2021
‘Are we the baddies?’ A Brief History of the Totenkopf Insignia | March 18, 2021
The Bodies of More Than 270 German WWI Soldiers Found in French Tunnel | March 15, 2021
The Etymology of ‘f*ck’ and the War that Popularized it | March 12, 2021
‘Stumbling Stones’: How a German Artist is Memorializing Holocaust Victims One Brick at a Time | March 12, 2021
Benjamin Ferencz, Last Surviving Nuremberg Trials Prosecutor, Turns 101 | March 11, 2021
How a Housewife Became One of WWII’s Most Decorated Spies | March 9, 2021
‘Loose Lips Sinks Ships’: Navy WAVES Recalls Cracking German Enigma Code | March 1, 2021
‘That Memory Will Just Never, Ever Go Away’: Hershel Williams Recalls Iwo Jima 76 Years On | February 19, 2021
After Decades-Long Delay, One of the First Black Special Forces Officers May Be Awarded Medal of Honor | February 17, 2021
Woo Your Significant Other This Valentine’s Day with the Help of Some WWII Acronyms | February 11, 2021
Britain’s Secret Weapon: The 13-Year-Old Schoolgirl Who Helped Win the Battle of Britain | February 9, 2021
The War Correspondent Who Made Belleau Wood — and the Marine Corps — Immortal | February 8, 2021
A Killer Sense of Humor: Images of Murderous Rabbits Line Medieval Texts | February 5, 2021
The ‘Japanese Schindler’ Who Saved Thousands of Lives During the Holocaust | February 1, 2021
Death by Marshmallows? For One RAF Crew This Sugary Snack Almost Proved Lethal | January 4, 2021
How a French Mime Ran Covert Missions During WWII to Save the Lives of Jewish Children | December 29, 2020
How Some Bra-Wearing Pigeons Saved Thousands of Lives During WWII | December 24, 2020
WWII Escape Maps Might be the World’s Most Unique Fashion Statement | December 21, 2020
Condoms as a Weapon and Other Wild Devices of the OSS | December 14, 2020
How Elvis Presley Helped to Popularize the Polio Vaccine | December 7, 2020
Listen as Lancaster Crew Takes ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ to a Whole Other Level | December 3, 2020
‘Jerry's Last Mission’: How a Veteran of WWII’s Last Air Battle Became a Lifelong Testament of the Human Spirit | November 13, 2020
‘Sentimental Journey’: How a Lost Album from a WWII-Era Army Band Could Now Go Platinum | November 9, 2020
Thanks to Twitter, the ‘Naked Gunner’ Continues to be Remembered 76 Years On | October 22, 2020
Book Highlights WWII Germany’s Bizarre Obsession with Posing with Polar Bear Mascots | October 20, 2020
Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese Officer Who Refused to Surrender Decades After WWII’s End | October 15, 2020
This WWII Veteran’s Memoir Is Slated to Be Part of the Next ‘Band of Brothers’ | March 7, 2023
