Normandy, June 1944. Rain-soaked and nearly forgotten to history, the bridge over the Douve River controlled everything. Take it, and German armor could cut straight through to the beaches of D-Day.

While times have changed, Kitsap Regional Library (KRL) has remained central to Kitsap County since 1945 as they continue ...

During the Second World War, a PoW camp in southeast Australia nearby the township Cowra housed mainly Japanese and Italian prisoners. During the night of August 5th 1944, a bugle sounded in the ...

Honey Baked Ham is a holiday necessity for many, but how many official locations are left in the United States? The answer is ...

France's social security system is celebrating its 80th anniversary. From its war-torn beginnings to its uncertain future, ...

Thousands of Aggies gathered together Friday afternoon around O.R. Simpson Drill Field to pay their respects to Reveille IX. Reveille IX, the beloved First Lady of Aggieland, died Sept. 27 of ...

An exhibit of the papers of Lorne Michaels at UT Austin's Ransom Center offers sobering insights about the limits of humor ...

The setting for the horrors perpetrated by killer Ed Gein was a dilapidated farmhouse on an isolated plot of land in rural Wisconsin.

Ed Gein was sent to a psychiatric hospital after his arrest on a charge of first-degree murder in 1957. Here's what doctors concluded.

Fonda, a star who has championed progressive causes since the 1970s, explained when she announced the group’s new edition on Oct. 1, 2025, that the effort isn’t really new. Instead, it marks the ...

In 1944, George Stinney Jr. became the youngest person ever executed in South Carolina at age 14. He was accused of bludgeoning two white girls to death and convicted by an all-white jury in a matter ...