In “Gotham at War,” Mike Wallace shows how the American fight against the Nazis started years before World War II, in the Big ...

RETTIG, GUNTHILDE “GUNDI” Gunthilde Erna Meta Rettig (née Stock) passed away peacefully on September 26, 2025. She is ...

On Oct. 1, 1890, legislation is signed by President Benjamin Harrison creating Yosemite National Park, making it the nation's ...

After discussing the emergence of nuclear physics, Close goes on to talk about the Allies’ development of the nuclear bomb. A key figure in this history was Enrico Fermi, who abandoned Fascist Italy ...

For the first time, Poland has authorized Ukrainian specialists to excavate suspected graves of Ukrainian Insurgent Army soldiers on its territory ...

Despite its scale, the subject of Wehrmacht conscripts has rarely entered public debate in Poland, let alone featured in Polish history textbooks. Hoja, who has received personal threats and insults ...

Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann was a larger-than-life figure, discovering Troy in what is now Hisarlik, in modern-day ...

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A young Bosnian Serb had one plan to free his people from the monarchy of Austria-Hungary: kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand, ...

A Larbert woman has recently returned from walking in the footsteps of her soldier father and his comrades who were deployed ...

Oct. 2 1906 — Canadian world heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Burns KOs American challenger ‘Fireman’ Jim Flynn in 15 rounds to retain his title in Los Angeles, California. 1950 — Jim Hardy throws ...

The context of the Battle of Britain matters. From war’s declaration to the invasion of France in May 1940 was the ‘Phoney ...