In World War II the long-term measure of military striking power is the power to produce, and production is on the side of the nations with the heaviest industries. On the following two pages TIME ...

Approximately 8,300 graves are at Margraten, one of a handful of out-of-the-way cemeteries for America’s war dead near the German borders of France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands. Many of ...

While fertility rates are declining globally, they are dropping faster in some places than others. Among the continents, ...

In the desperate rush of World War II, American engineers made a radical bet: they built a tank destroyer with almost no ...

Signed by 36 Polish bishops at the Second Vatican Council, the letter sought to break cycles of vengeance by embracing the Gospel’s mandate to forgive.

After pulling out of a 500-miles-an-hour nosedive, the veteran pilot, Jerry Neal, said he suddenly saw a rock bar on the ...

We always enjoy [History Guy]’s musing on all things history, but we especially like it when his historical stories intersect ...

Archaeologists reveal that a new digital atlas shows Roman road network was 50% larger than known, mapping 186,000 miles ...

Five Rodman brothers from Washington, NC, served simultaneously in WWII, making history with their sacrifice and patriotism.

Known for using unconventional materials — from Pearl Harbor seawater to meteorite moondust — in the name of horological ...

Fortunes of War, a WWII miniseries starring Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh, showed off Thompson's impressive star power ...