On Sept. 2, 1945, the official end of World War II came to pass with Japan’s signing of the Instrument of Surrender aboard ...

A gimlet-eyed and honest accounting of the war’s hidden costs that still affect us today. Ad Policy Recently discharged Marine Faris Touhy recreates an image of him drinking a cup of coffee after two ...

On May 5, 1945, a quiet spring afternoon near Bly, Oregon, became a tragic moment in American history. Six innocent lives were lost when a Japanese balloon bomb (one of the mysterious Fu-Go weapons ...

Portraits abound in the Oval, more than 20 of them, mostly of presidents past. Trump has regularly added and swapped out ...

The Chinese writer’s fiction details how the country transformed on an intimate level after the Cultural Revolution.

As 2025 ends, we remember prominent individuals who called Iowa home, whether for a lifetime or a brief chapter.

But quite a few sequels this year improved on the original, and/or added something new to the franchise, and/or were a heck of a lot of fun. These are the films that proved those snooty film students ...

I was in Khartoum when the conflict started. Armed soldiers of Arabs came to our house and they wanted to loot groundnuts, but my mother resisted opening the ...

Brittany Carloni / Wisconsin Watch, Wisconsin Watch4, 2025 Every week in Forward, our Monday newsletter about the week ahead ...

Amid the hardships of the war, Christmas dinner became an annual reprieve for far-flung troops across the globe.

Les Schrenk and Casey Bukowski already share a special bond as World War II veterans. After all, not many from the Greatest ...

The legend of Jasper Maskelyne, a British stage magician who helped hide Allied military installations during World War II, has likely been embellished beyond his actual accomplishments.