In small town America, boys with absent heads of households were taken under the wing of World War I veterans from such ...

Schab was a sailor of just 21 at the time of the attack, and for decades he rarely spoke about the experience.

A few months after the attack on Pearl Harbor thrust the United States into World War II, a little girl was walking to school in northwest Washington, D.C. when she found a baby squirrel that had ...

Happy Friday! This week’s Radio Ink Blast From The Past features American pop culture icon Dick Van Dyke on the eve of his ...

Guards at the Curragh had blanks in their weapons and the internees, allied and German, were allowed to visit local pubs and ...

Millions of women joined the workforce to help out with the war effort. In the process, they changed women’s roles in society ...

But the festive headlines were wiped clean on Dec. 7, when a surprise attack by the Empire of Japan’s air fleet struck the United States Pacific Fleet at the Pearl Harbor naval base in Oahu, Hawaii.

White Christmas' became a beloved holiday film when it was released in 1954. Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and ...

Today, the world celebrates a true legend: Dick Van Dyke turns 100. Few performers have left as indelible a mark on ...

As the only president elected to four terms and who saw the country through two of its greatest cataclysms — the Great ...

Associate Professor of Film and Television studies Charlotte Howell joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions ...

Fresh Air's book critic says her picks tilt a bit to nonfiction, but the novels that made the cut redress the imbalance by ...