The 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated unit consisting of Japanese Americans during World War II, is the U.S. military's most decorated unit, including 21 Medal of Honor recipients.

Writer Clay Risen describes the anti-Communist frenzy that destroyed the careers of thousands of teachers, union activists and civil servants — and connects that era to our current political moment.

Japan’s three historic nuclear events — the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the closing days of World War II and ...

During the Cold War, the US poured support into Arctic military outposts and climate research amid fears of a Russian ...

On February 4th, World War II, United States Navy Veteran Joseph “Grandpa Joe” Costa celebrated his 104th birthday. To ...

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Eurostar trains to London and all trains heading to northern France have been brought to a halt following the discovery of an ...

In her latest book, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick tells the story of millions of displaced people and international efforts to relocate them.

History Hit presenter Luke Tomes returns to the Royal Armouries in Leeds to fire some of the most iconic weapons of the ...

One of the most pointless wars in US history ... room to create a more unilateral approach to Washington hegemony. Indeed, Trump’s crude demand for Kyiv to repay Washington for the war is ...

President Trump says the U.S. has spent $350 billion on the war in Ukraine—a figure that is at odds with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s tally, as well as U.S. government agencies and ...

It was one of eight such shelters built by the UK government during World War II in response to ... exchange during the Cold War. It even hosted the “hot line” that directly connected the leaders of ...