He was 19 years old when he went to war. Later in his life, while I was growing up, he was a Sunday School teacher for 12-year-old boys in our church. Dad’s favorite Christmas hymn was, “I Heard the ...

Parades and memorials across Europe marking 80 years since Nazi Germany's surrender at the end of World War ... BELLS CHIMING) FRAYER: ...Began two minutes of nationwide silence across Britain ...

A civil war has broken out among the Democratic wonks ... Over the past 90 years or so, and especially since World War II, American cities have thrown up a series of restrictions on new housing.

Britain went to war ... around the wireless. He said: "One saw people strolling about in the sunshine - it was a lovely morning - completely oblivious of what was going on in the Cabinet Room ...

It’s the repetition of those four notes that’s so insistent, that evokes tinsel and tinkling bells this time of ... plea for independence after World War I. “The Ukrainians are a singing ...

In the decades leading to the Second World War, the rise of the radio transformed ... growing openness toward authoritarianism in politics around the world. The good news is that we can draw ...

It all started with a broken promise ... The U.S. wasn't ready for war: While European powers had entered World War I with large, standing armies, the U.S. military ranks were paltry by comparison.