McKinney was supposed to be taking the hand of Joyce Ann Riley in marriage in Tulia, he found himself raising his own hands to march north.

Marty Connor was 18 years old when he fought all 36 days during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. But perhaps his greatest legacy would be what happened after the war. 80 years after Iwo Jima, his ...

Women and dried pollock need to be beaten every three days for better taste” – so goes an old saying that was common in South ...

CBS News' Edward R. Murrow was shocked by what he saw at the just-liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945. Work continues to ensure the world never forgets.

U.S. Navy nurses stationed in the Philippine Islands became prisoners of the brutal Imperial Japanese Army for 37 months. Those 37 months made hell look like a surfing vacation.

The pair of rulings didn’t address the legality of President Donald Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport ...

Learn the story of Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, who became the highest-ranking American POW during WWII, in Jonathan Horn's newest book, "The Fate of the Generals." ...

The National Historical Commission of the Philippines has posted photos of Filipino women who exhibited gallantry during World War II (WWII) in commemoration of the Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor) ...

American and Filipino forces on the Bataan Peninsula surrendered to the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

An effort to digitize the works of Nebraska author Willa Cather lost funding as part of the cuts, as well as a project to put ...

The Trump administration admitted that the first round of deportation flights accidentally sent a father of three to a maximum security prison in El Salvador.

Jenny Chan heard frequent tales from her grandmother about the atrocities committed by the Japanese against the Chinese people during World War II. Chan thought she was delusional. "She was living in ...