Such hometown magazines served as a sort of collective family letter to far-flung troops yearning to get back home.

Hidden histories come to life in this sprawling show, which includes photos, films and interactive touch-screen oral ...

“Everyone who came on to the street got a gun. Kids dug up the roads, people threw down beds, furniture, anything to build ...

In a nod to the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, a new immersive exhibit opening at Kenan House Gallery in ...

Ticket sales continue for GreenMan Theatre Troupe’s production of “The Cover of Life,” a play filled with charm, humor, ...

a new immersive exhibit opening at Kenan House Gallery in January will take visitors back to the 1940s for an introduction to “Secret Weapons of WWII: women, books and music.” Formally a ...

Rasmussen is one of the few remaining women who were recruited to serve in WAVES, a military unit within the U.S. Navy created during World War II, which acted as a catalyst ... across America and was ...

Alongside Riffaud in combat were women including guerilla commander Alice Arteil External, code-named Sylva, and bomb specialist Simone Segouin, who was shown in Life magazine holding a captured ...

This story appears in the June 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. Seventy-nine years ago, the most far-flung, destructive, and lethal war in history approached its end. World War II lived ...