In 1942, James G. Thompson of Wichita, Kansas, addressed a letter to the editor of The Pittsburgh Courier with a simple question.

Hundreds of people once called this San Luis Obispo neighborhood home.

Eighty-four years after Darwin was bombed in the single largest foreign attack ever mounted on Australian soil, hundreds of ...

On Feb. 19, 1878, Thomas Edison patented the first gramophone.

When thousands of their fellow Californians were interned in the 1940s for being of Japanese descent, Jewish reactions were mixed.

Jim Tanimoto, the last of the “no-no boys” from the Tule Lake internment camp, shares his story of loyalty and resistance.

The Coast Guard has commissioned its newest and sixth Arctic District Fast Response Cutter (FRC), Coast Guard Cutter Frederick Mann (WPC 1160), for official entry into its service fleet during a ...

Executive Order 9066, Battle of Iwo Jima, Mir space station launch, and milestones in history, science, and culture.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order for the removal of Japanese Americans on the west coast into ...

On October 26, 1942, aboard the USS Enterprise, alarms shattered the morning calm as Japanese aircraft closed in on the American fleet. Lieutenant Stanley “Swede” Vejtasa led his F4F Wildcats - the ...