Sgt. Robert F. Van Heck, of Chicago, Illinois, was 25 years old in 1943 when he was killed during the U.S. campaign in the ...

The project investigates the often-overlooked stories of Latinos, Native Americans, LGBTQ people, disabled people and the ...

Renee Hartman got the last laugh on Adolf Hitler. As a child in Europe, Renee was among the millions sent to Nazi death camps during World War II. She almost died at the notorious Bergen-Belsen.

Researchers led by Tadeja Gracner (USC) studied UK sugar rationing during and after WWII to assess long-term health effects ...

International Harvester R140 Woody Wagon was used to support the Minuteman Missile program during the Cold War.

For years, the U.S. Army's rations have included an unpalatable bar of Hershey's chocolate. Find out the real reason for the ...

A lost Purple Heart belonged to Edward Gorski, a soldier who took shrapnel to the face in the final days of World War II.

Years into the war with Russia, the Ukrainian state has not resorted to widespread nationalizations or labor conscription.

The outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939 returned the Canadian Red Cross Society (CRCS) to its roots as a wartime humanitarian aid organization, and returned it to the size and strength ...

Infants who experienced rationing had a meaningfully lower risk of diabetes and hypertension decades later ...

Eighty years ago the Battle of the Bulge started, Germany’s last big offensive against the U.S. and Allies during World War ...