Take a Virtual Tour of a Post-WWII Bunker Up for Sale in England
Now is your chance to own an important part of British history.
Now is your chance to own an important part of British history.
Uncle Sam is an easily recognizable piece of wartime propaganda. And legend says he was based off a real person—though that may not actually be the case.
During WWII, the U.S. government was scared that Japan might take all of Hawaii's money. Here's what they did to stop it.
This 80-year-old archival footage shows Operation Neptune—the code name for the landings on the beaches at Normandy.
Allied officials came up with some strange strategies to win World War II. Operation Fantasia planned to use glow-in-the-dark foxes to spook Japanese forces into defeat.
D-Day occurred on June 6, 1944, and kicked off the Battle of Normandy. Though it was a success, General Eisenhower was preparing for the worst.
The Irei Project and Ancestry have teamed up to publish the most comprehensive list ever assembled of the more than 125,000 Japanese Americans who were incarcerated on American soil during WWII.
The Allied forces’ Normandy landings on June 6, 1944—an event better known as D-Day—became a pivotal moment in World War II .
Winston Churchill so hated Graham Sutherland’s likeness of him that he had it set on fire.
People have spread incorrect information long before the invention of the internet.
The history of sushi in the U.S. can be traced back to the 1970s.
The Silent Generation may not be as flashy a group as Millennials, but they wield a surprising amount of influence over our culture.
Plagued by oral issues, the British prime minister carried two sets of dentures with him at all times.
The precocious pachyderm nearly made the cover. Then Pearl Harbor was attacked.
Find out more about the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, from the first soldier ever interred in it to the rigorous process of guarding it.
Grab your lucky rabbit’s foot and read up on the tales of some of the unluckiest people in history, from the man whose backyard became a battlefield (twice!) to an absurdly accident-prone instrument inventor and beyond.
Hitler's Germany stole over 600,000 paintings during World War II. A new law will make sure museum visitors know about it.
Your history teacher probably didn't tell you about the time the unfortunately named Captain Schlitt's bowel movement sank an entire German submarine.
Major William Martin was a Roman Catholic Welshman who enjoyed the theater and loved his fiancée, Pam. He also didn’t exist—but the Nazis didn’t know that.
The fall of Constantinople isn’t the only battle that helped usher in a whole new era of history.
Hormel calls the appetite for SPAM in the state “unmatched by any place in the world.”
Ahead of the release of 'The Fervor,' Alma Katsu's supernatural reimaging of Japanese internment, here are her favorite historical horror novels
Despite having shot her own leg off in a hunting accident, Virginia Hall became one of the most feared Allied spies of the war.
These tributes to fallen soldiers may not be as instantly recognizable as the Vietnam Memorial and others, but their stories are no less fascinating--including one that doubles as a mausoleum right in Manhattan.