We’re celebrating ten years of Our Rich History. You can browse and read any of the past columns, from the present all the ...

A collection of World War Two Home Guard papers reveals the volunteer force was not "a load of duffers" but highly skilled ...

Fred Whipple has long been recognized as a major contributor to our understanding of space and spaceflight—with contributions ...

My grandpa fled Latvia as a WWI refugee. Decades later, I visited the partisan bunkers and battlefields he never had the ...

Police said they would defuse the British-made bomb on site. LONDON -- Thousands of people were evacuated from the center of the east German city of Dresden on Wednesday, as authorities there prepared ...

The influx of immigrants crossing our border under President Biden’s watch isn’t the first time the U.S. has hosted foreign nationals en masse. During WWII, 400,000 German soldiers made the U. S.

The American munitions were discovered on June 2 in Cologne, Germany CHRISTOPHER NEUNDORF/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock The German city of Cologne said that three unexploded ...

The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have entered Narragansett Bay before the U.S. officially entered WWII.

In the chaos of the Battle of the Bulge, German command launched one of the most daring deception operations of the war. Disguised in U.S. uniforms, speaking perfect English, and driving American ...

On March 18, 1945, Army 1st Lt. Jack Lemaster Treadwell saw eight of his soldiers gunned down while assaulting a heavily fortified, seemingly impregnable section of the Siegfried Line near ...

German engineers and scientists created some exceptional and novel military designs during WWII. Granted, not everything they created was an instant success, and they even created one fighter jet that ...