Right after World War II, a crucial alliance between the two countries fell apart. We are still paying the price.

It was February 25, 1942, two and a half months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the U.S. Navy had given the island’s ...

The sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis is widely known as a shark story—but the truth is much more horrifying.

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which claimed 2,400 American lives, decisively propelled the United States into World ...

After being labeled an “enemy alien” during World War II, Hiroshi Miyamura later served his country with distinction — ...

These four freedoms became the basic ideas for why America joined England in signing the Atlantic Charter in August 1941 and ...

The poem that inspired the song, America the Beautiful, is 130 years old today, and it resonates more than ever.

The new American ambassador, Edward Walsh, is not the first to find himself at odds with Irish opinion makers – during his ...

In 1941, the world changed forever. On what seemed like another ordinary December night, the calm of a Hawaiian morning ...

Against the backdrop of U.S. attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, a scholar of presidential powers examines the history and ...

In 1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt told Grand Forks banker he hoped to see Al Smith elected president Four years later, Roosevelt would be selected as the Democratic nominee instead of Smith, and ...

Vaughn P. Drake Jr., a Kentuckian believed to be the oldest survivor of the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, has died at the age of 106, according to his family.