Andrew Biggio never met his great-uncle, but he’s gotten to know him well. “My uncle was killed in World War II — I’m named after him,” Biggio said. “He didn’t make it home from his war, and I did. I ...

Battle of Britain pilot Paddy Hemingway, who served from the first day of the Second World War to the very last and was shot ...

The collection caps a remarkable near-century of life. Mr. Marumo survived World War II despite volunteering ... that he was retiring from the sport before having surgery for a hernia.

Nazis staying at Greenbrier during WWII were treated like aristocratic guests. They even threw a birthday party for Hitler there.

Paratroopers were snapped for a newspaper early on the morning of 24 March 1945, drinking tea before getting into planes ... but huge loss of life. About six weeks later, Victory in Europe was ...

Priscilla Presley returned to Bad Nauheim, the German town where she met Elvis Presley, and recalled her days at H.H. Arnold High School in Wiesbaden.

Before they were soldiers, they were farmers, bootmakers, blacksmiths, and kauri climbers. Artist Lindsey Kirk’s latest exhibition brings New Zealand’s wartime history to life — not through ...

Ancient microbes illustrate a particular kind of respiration in which carbon dioxide and hydrogen are combined to form acetic ...

More than 20,000 stillbirths occur in the U.S. each year, but 1 in 4 may be preventable. “Before a Breath” sheds light on ...

Today, many people associate epicureanism with hedonistic pleasure-seeking – but that’s not really what he taught.

It’s been almost five years since Gov. JB Pritzker issued a stay-at-home order to try to curb the spread of COVID-19. We ...

Satellite images taken more than three decades apart show the disappearance of Iceland's Okjökull, the first glacier to be ...