In 1951, as Cold War tensions grew, the U.S. government produced a short film called Duck and Cover. Created by the Civil Defense branch and brought to life by director Anthony Rizzo of Archer ...

Biographer Ian Collins of Southwold, Suffolk, has scooped New Angle Prize for Literature for his biography of Akenfield auth ...

What if the United States had turned against Britain and France in 1917 and joined the Central Powers instead? This video explores how American industry, manpower, and naval power could have reshaped ...

The Alhashemi family scraped the depths of misery in April 2024. Threatened with imminent deportation from Belgium to Iraq, they attempted to cross the English Channel in a small boat. Their ...

Framingham resident Alec Karys discovered a diary his father kept as a soldier during World War I, decades after his father's death. The diary revealed a poetic and sentimental side of Karys' father ...

The Blitz Kids were a group of friends who as children grew up in wartime Britain, experiencing the challenges, dangers and changes brought by World War II. When the war began in 1939, they were just ...

There were many bizarre and unbelievable social programs that were a part of Hitler’s Third Reich, that existed from 1933 until 1945, but one of the most controversial and curious ...

The children’s TV channel KiKa’s editorial team—and with it the German elites—are apparently determined to reconnect with the militarist traditions of the Kaiser’s Empire and the Nazi era—starting ...

A descendant of Dr Elsie Inglis has revealed her family’s support for the planned Edinburgh statue depicting her, and defended its design amid the 'military outfit' row.

General McLane social studies teacher Maximillian Knight is one of 13 teachers nationwide awarded a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Teacher Fellowship.

People tend to say "bruh" when something absurd happens. But would you say there's a historical moment that deserves such a description or reaction? Granted, many absurd things have happened ...