world war II

With the coronavirus crisis worsening in the UK and around the world, Queen Elizabeth II took the rare step on Sunday…

“Rosie the Riveter” namesake Rosalind P. Walter, who was one of millions of women to assume the traditionally-male…

Jim Carrey is feuding with the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini on Twitter—is not a sentence I thought I’d ever writ…

I didn’t intend to start my day by crying at my desk (which is also my kitchen table—I’m working from home), but…

Naomi Parker Fraley—who as a young woman took up war work shortly after Pearl Harbor and boasted perhaps the single…

Dunkirk is Christopher Nolan’s brutal thriller about World War II’s Dunkirk evacuation, a bleak moment in which…

Today, singer Vera Lynn—who was incredibly popular in wartime Britain, with bittersweet hits like “We’ll Meet Again”…

If you haven’t watched Casablanca lately, you might have forgotten that this 1942 classic—routinely described as one…

I remember the exact moment that I connected internment with my family. I was in elementary school, and we had…

On August 14, 1945, 21-year-old dental assistant Greta Zimmer Friedman joined a rejoicing crowd in New York City’s…

It took hard work by her family and a literal act of Congress, but Elaine D. Harmon, who served as a pilot in World…

Two women who were forced to work as “comfort women” (read: sex slaves) for the Japanese army during World War II…

Norwood Thomas, a 93-year-old World War II army veteran, will finally reunite with his long-lost love, 88-year-old…

At the end of World War II, an estimated 200,000 South Korean women were forced by the Imperial Japanese Army to…

Hey, history-of-fashion nerds: Amazon UK has just booked an eight-part period drama about French haute couture in…

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed legislation on Tuesday urging the city to build a memorial in…

Marie Jalowicz Simon spent the Holocaust hiding from the Nazis—living underground in Berlin, keeping to the fringes…

Of all the things that could be used to replicate nylon stockings, gravy juice seems like a strange option.

On VE Day, not-yet Queen Elizabeth slipped out of Buckingham Palace and joined the festivities. Please enjoy this…