Martha Gellhorn stowed away on a hospital ship to become the only woman journalist to land on Normandy Beach on D-Day. She carried stretchers before writing her harrowing account of the invasion. The ...

The Mutter Museum is famous for displaying medical and macabre curiosities — including fragments of Albert Einstein's brain, ...

Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Iran has been condemned in the West as a repressive theocracy. But the history of this vast nation of more than 90 million people is long and complicated. In ...

Democrats have predicted that President Trump's war against Iran will end in disaster, but if it does end well, they will have to face their own potential disaster of having declared the war a mistake ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A deep and wide-ranging biography of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has won a $50,000 prize.

There’s no plaque or sign indicating that the four grand bookcases lining the Boston Athenaeum’s fourth floor are anything unusual. Yet these volumes once belonged to the nation’s first Secretary of ...

When Das Reich finally reached Normandy in June 1944, it arrived fragmented and under constant Allied air attack. Fighting through the hedgerows against British, Canadian, and American forces, the ...

"Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot-and it will ...

Two secret battlefield letters written by George Washington during one of the toughest winters of the Revolutionary War have ...

This week is a special one for me. My first children’s book, "Read All About It!" comes out, and I’m immensely proud of it. I wrote it because I’m a father of four daughters and because I’m a ...