Descendants of characters in “Operation Mincemeat,” a hit British musical now in New York, have gotten more out of seeing it than a few catchy melodies.

For more than a decade, as Cold War tensions threatened to escalate into all-out war, Mr. Gordievsky, a senior KGB officer, ...

From the streets of Harlem to Vietnam to Hollywood, these stories correct the record and spotlight lesser-known heroes for ...

The U.S. hoped that if German POWs were treated humanely, Germany would reciprocate in its treatment of American prisoners.

Constitutional Law Expert Erwin Chemerinsky warns about the expansion of presidential power, and how that weakens the ...

Fifty or more Syracusans, led by Father Charles Brady, took real risks to make our society more just, says the letter writer.

Polish restaurants in Hamtramck are staffed with Ukrainian servers who moved to Detroit to be safer. One refugee, a former ...

David Sheff was only 24 when he famously interviewed John Lennon and Yoko Ono for Playboy magazine in September of 1980. He ...

What happens when a Navy captain and a historian walk into a bar? They come out with a hit podcast about the Pacific War.

Thomas Maier’s latest release, “The Invisible Spy,” revisits the cinematic life of real-life U.S. intelligence officer Ernest ...

A tour led by an 88-year-old guide in Bastogne, Belgium, scene of a critical battle of World War II, offers a snapshot into ...

If Yoko Ono’s life were a novel, it would be a twisting, turning, wildly unpredictable epic. What a story: Little Yoko was ...