Even well into World War II, Black soldiers were typically relegated to menial, non-combat positions in the Army. They cooked, patched roads, did the laundry and guarded the military gates ...

Mention the topic of Black people in the Revolutionary era, and many people can name Crispus Attucks, a runaway slave from Framingham who died in the 1770 Boston Massacre and is hailed as the ...

It is matter of fact and public record that the US government recruited former German scientists after WWII to work for America. This program, known as Operation Paperclip, ended up bringing ...

We took our recording van last week to a small, Lancashire mill town about 15 miles from Manchester and found, almost without exception, that the children there were happy, excited by their new ...

This M109 Howitzer was damaged at Fire Base Rita tyring to hold back a human wave of enemy troops. (U.S. Army/Fort Sill) Charles Rogers was born in 1929 in West Virginia. His father served in the ...

German car giants shake off their Nazi past to prepare for war Berlin’s rearmament drive could see automotive assembly lines retooled to roll out tanks Save ...

These are the key events on day 1,133 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

'Russia does not want a ceasefire', Zelenskyy says after 14 killed in strike A senior Kremlin official has hinted at a shift in Moscow's stance on the issue of security guarantees for Ukraine ...