World War 1 created a wave of devastating facial injuries that traditional medicine was unprepared to treat. Surgeons like Harold Gillies pioneered new reconstructive techniques that laid the ...

A young Bosnian Serb had one plan to free his people from the monarchy of Austria-Hungary: kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand, ...

The wealthiest college athletic conference ever to exist was founded in 1896, at the Chicago Loop's still-standing Palmer House hotel. From those quasi-humble origins sprang a behemoth—an 18-team ...

Vietnam Veteran Jack Minnier, of Shamokin Dam, a former adjutant of the Sunbury American Legion Post 201, quite by accident, ...

Images of Chairman Xi Jinping, dressed in a grey Mao suit, officiating at China's spectacular military parade through Beijing on 3 September, were carefully orchestrated.

After opening a hole in the box and leaving the plate exposed to the outside world for eight hours, a ghostly image of the ...

Dr. James I. Robertson, who edited a quarterly publication, Civil War History, and authored several books, visited ...

Our first in-house map was produced during World War I. By the Second World War, the White House was asking for them by name.

China relationship is not a structural inevitability, but a result of political choices made by governments across the ...

Boxing's age-old clarion call is ringing out again. Along the fabled Strip in Nevada as Mexico's living legend Canelo Alvarez ...

Vicente Cifuentes and Arnaud De La Croix, trans. from the French by Amanda Axsom and Peter Law. Abrams ComicArts, $29.99 (296p) ISBN 978-1-4197-8449-1 French historian De La Croix makes his ...

Pemberville-born Elizabeth Bowlus enlisted in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) and used her college degree in library science for military administration in London and Paris during World War II. Carl ...