Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the UK’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II ... Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith, Plowright won a Tony Award ...

A free symposium at the museum Feb. 15 will look at African American engagment in World War II and its place in social progress.

This is the fourth part in a series of special history columns about World War II. Almost two months into the fighting of World War II with enemies in the Pacific and in Europe, Cobb County had become a hive of activity with everyone doing something to support the war effort.

From 1943 through 1946, more than 3,400 prisoners (including 15 Nazi generals) were processed at Fort Hunt, according to Robert K. Sutton's 2022 book, "Nazis on the Potomac: The Top-Secret Intelligence Operation that Helped Win World War II.

Albert “Hank" Sturgess Jr. earned nine battle stars and the Presidential Unit Citation for his bravery while serving in the South Pacific during World War II.

Hidden Spies of World War II” is a collection of vignettes of 52 courageous women, most of whom spied for the Allies in German-occupied France. They were part of a group created by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and known as the Special Operations Executive’s F Section.

The Auschwitz martyrs’ legacy of holiness continues to be a source of inspiration for Catholics worldwide. Here are several of those martyrs and their stories, listed by religious order: St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891–1942) — also known as Edith Stein — was a Catholic convert of Jewish heritage.

The Tuskegee Airmen, known as the “Red Tails,” were the nation's first Black military pilots who served in a segregated WWII unit.

Shannon Atkins, 46, is accused of lodging threats against Trump on Facebook, West Palm Police Department Chief Tony Araujo told reporters during an afternoon press conference. During the late ...

Trump's executive order halting DEI means the Air Force no longer teaches recruits about WWII's Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots.

While a handful of bigger hits might have overshadowed its success, there's no denying that Gladiator II is a blockbuster. The movie debuted alongside Wicked in one of 2024's biggest box office ...

The last survivor of the American team that competed in Hitler’s 1936 Games in Berlin, she went on to become a wartime pilot and an aeronautics instructor.