An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...

The munition here had outlasted one of the Pacific’s fiercest World War II battles. Eight decades later, investigators in ...

After three decades of helping save African forests, Mike Fay, a Wildlife Conservation Soci­ety biologist and National ...

There’s a place in Lakewood, Washington where real fighter jets sit outside like they’re just casually waiting for you to ...

Captain Joseph Foss shot down 26 Japanese aircraft defending Guadalcanal making him Amercia’s top ace. In the account that ...

While the Odyssey isn’t exactly history (the cyclops and casual conversations with deities should be a giveaway), its success ...

Americans have disasters on the brain — some real threats, and some imaginary. For instance, more than one in 10 believe we’ll eventually experience a zombie apocalypse, according to a 2025 survey of ...

No one wants to be a lighthouse keeper on the Arctic coast of the Far North, not even the hardiest of Russian hardmen. To manage this personnel problem, the USSR came up with a bold plan: to line its ...

The world is, admittedly, a big place, so it can feel daunting to try and learn more about it. But sometimes just bite-sized ...