Christmas in 1944 and 19-year-old Pvt. James R. Hendrix was far away from his home in the northeast Arkansas town of Lepanto.

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Mourners in Gaza held funerals for 19 people — 12 of them children — killed in Israeli strikes on Friday and overnight.

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Ray Smith tells about the findings by the author of "Critical Mass: How Nazi Germany Surrendered Enriched Uranium for the ...

The festive season for the Royal Family has varied greatly over centuries.  Read on below as MailOnline takes a look back at ...

And while Melloan in no way glossed over the myriad of errors the federal government made in the 1930s on the way to a sluggish economic decade for the United States, his book was a reminder of two ...

One of the best World War 2 action films ever is on BBC iPlayer for a limited time and it's based on an incredible true story ...

Winston Churchill called the “Battle of the Bulge” the greatest battle of World War II. For the United States, it was the ...

Paul Schubert, a 95-year-old Chelsea resident, brings history to life with Immigrants’ Son, a vivid memoir of his ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This "Historically Speaking" column contains the opinions of columnist D. Ray Smith based upon the research ...