For decades, the life and imagery of Anne Frank have served an array of political and personal agendas, some quite far removed from their original context of the German-occupied Netherlands of World ...

The older Prince of Wales was sunk by Japanese aircraft in December 1941. In the modern age, it faces a new enemy: looters intent on plundering its valuable low-background steel.

On July 4, 1944, Sgt. Howard Urabe was fighting Nazis in Europe. Hailing from Kapaa, Kauai, he was fighting alongside other young nisei — American-born Japanese — who had volunteered for combat duty.

Over the course of World War II, many women stepped out of societal norms to take on roles that were essential to the Allied victory. Many took to the skies while others worked behind the scenes in ...

In 1941, just after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt rode to Congress in a seized armored limo once owned by gangster Al Capone. It was the only bulletproof car available. Today, presidential ...

As 'Lee Miller' exhibits at the Tate, the photographer's son, Antony Penrose, shares insights into family life, why she's much more than just a Surrealist muse, and what Kate Winslet taught him about ...

The state visit of President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump to Britain has undeniably been a success. The U.S. leader can be temperamental and demanding. Trump was positive throughout the ...

In 1967, a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II was unveiled which surely remains one of the most eccentric and peculiar ever commissioned. What is even more extraordinary is that this mischievous sculpture ...

Sgt. John Herrick of Bushong, Kan., was one of four soldiers from the town of 81 killed when a Coast Guard landing craft struck a mine off Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944. His remains were ...

The success of American companies and pension funds depends on international markets, giving the world leverage to keep the US on board for the energy transition.

A Paris court has sentenced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison for criminal conspiracy. The court found him guilty of attempting to finance his 2007 campaign with ...

Europe, the continent that gave the world democracy, Pax Romana, the Renaissance, the Great Explorers, the libertarian ideals of the Scottish enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution and the ...