To determine who was a national security threat, the government used overt racial profiling. Similar to today, when the U.S. government often misidentifies Latino Americans as noncitizens, a majority ...

A former firefighter from Uddingston who holds an MBE and a World War II Russian Medal of Honour has picked up another ...

They get to understand the different aspects of history and why we have the freedoms that we have today," a program head told Military.com.

A new memoir reveals the true story of a Jewish child in the Warsaw Ghetto and the Polish Resistance. This isn't just ...

As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...

In the last months of World War II, Lola Kantorowicz tried her best to hide her pregnancy. She succeeded because most of the ...

Robert Hardman explained how Elizabeth was winning over American hearts from childhood, starting with her very first radio broadcast on October 13, 1940.

Ilana Kantorowicz Shalem was born in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, and is one of the youngest Holocaust ...

Arctic Monkeys and Damon Albarn tell us about working on Help 2, an all-star charity album for War Child UK, which helps ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Cheryl W. Thompson about her book, "Forgotten Souls: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen," ...

Many of our childhood movie choices are defined by the films our parents wouldn't let us see. An NPR panel of movie lovers discusses the films they were forbidden to watch and what it was like to ...

Philippe Collin makes intricate series that are reshaping how French people understand uncomfortable parts of their history. Millions are tuning in.