Airplanes may get all the airborne attention when discussing World War II, but military gliders also made huge contributions ...

According to NPR, spook comes from the Dutch word for apparition, or specter. The noun was first used in English around the turn of the nineteenth century. From there, the word lived a harmless life, ...

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September 1944. In the fog-shrouded fields of Lorraine, a handful of American Hellcats faced dozens of German Panthers ...

More than six decades later, what has emerged is a military-narrational complex, in which war presents too good a story not to tell, over and over again. States, and now nonstate actors, have been ...

A Gilded Age baron invited Carl Alwin Schenck to manage his forest at the Biltmore Estate. The decision changed America's ...

Bishop Timothy Senior said he was “shocked and appalled to learn” the float entered by the St. Joseph Catholic School in Hanover, which resembled the Auschwitz Concentration Camp gate, ...

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Plans for the beloved cathedral’s reconstruction have been disrupted by the pandemic. But Europeans have faced a similar situation before.

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Keith Raffel Creators Syndicate I am confessing up front that I suffer from logophilia. That sounds serious, and it is. It means I love words. I explore their meanings and derivations. I am always on ...

Senesh fled Hungary just before World War II. But unlike most Jews who escaped the Nazis ... Instead, on that day, June 17, 1944, mother and daughter were reunited in a military prison under the ...