In September 1942, during World War II, a small force of U.S. Marines defended a narrow jungle ridge on Guadalcanal against ...

Nobuko Rena Nakayama says she still suffers from an identity crisis after being forced to move to Japan from Canada in 1946.

A bleary-eyed man jolts awake, staring in disbelief as a neat row of fleas on his blanket stiffen their spindly legs and ...

On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean off the Indonesian island of Sumatra triggered a ...

Blair County District Attorney Amos Davis was preparing to retire after 10 years of service. He joined the Blair Co. Bar in 1938, had been a star athlete on the Altoona High football team and played ...

The defenders of Hong Kong, tens of thousands of miles from any conceivable relief force, surrendered the territory to ...

After seeing the realities of war in The Pacific, this Netflix miniseries portrays another eye-opening part of history.

This video explores why American flamethrowers became one of the most feared weapons during World War II, particularly in the ...

Japan is a showcase for universal health care, and what we’re losing in GOP attacks on the Affordable Care Act.

A nearly forgotten piece of Hawaiʻi history can help us in the debate over how to keep our food supply flowing to the islands ...

As the only president elected to four terms and who saw the country through two of its greatest cataclysms — the Great ...

The first year of the second Trump administration has demonstrated—if any more proof were needed—that the days when allies could rely on the United States to uphold world order are over. For the 80 ...