In the bitter winter of 1941, British military prisoners in Nazi-occupied Germany huddled around a Monopoly set, dazzled by ...

It’s a tense time in the Jewish family group chats. The consensus that held American Jewry together for generations is ...

What if the United States had turned against Britain and France in 1917 and joined the Central Powers instead? This video explores how American industry, manpower, and naval power could have reshaped ...

On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ...

Considered an essential piece of kit for every Marine, a wide variety of private-purchase and standard-issue knives were pressed into service in every theater of the war to tackle tasks ranging from ...

America in a post-American world.

Top nuclear experts gathered in Chicago to offer world leaders a playbook for reducing the risk of nuclear war.

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

Today, the United States itself is at risk of being turned into a military dictatorship. Its liberal-democratic institutions ...

To boost troop morale and keep an eye on postwar reconstruction, the US Army requisitioned dozens of hotels across southern ...

Although today’s dangers are not in the same league as a world war, they are significant. Pundits talk of a “polycrisis” ...