History in the News

George Briant, shown here in an undated photo and in 2004, recalls Nov. 11, 1918, the day the war ended and the guns fell silent: "You looked like you were in a new land; you couldn't believe that everything is quiet". Ten years ago, writer Richard Rubin set out to talk to every living American veteran of World War I he could find.

Battling hypothermia as much as German troops seeking to take their lives, men like Cpl.

The stamp is a reproduction of an 1887 chromolithograph by Thure de Thulstrup, a Swedish-born artist who became an illustrator for Harper's Weekly after the Civil War.

Every CEO is a politician. Not every politician is a CEO. The current set of messes that President Obama faces makes the point.

The 1906 Antiquities Act, which grants the president unilateral authority to protect broad swaths of land as monuments, has long stirred controversy in the West, where we don't like the feds overstepping.

Like a general leading his troops into battle, tour guide Charlie Fennell stands tall on his Segway, snaking through the crowd that mills around an equestrian statue.

Somerville's Memorial Day Parade will be led by two veterans this year. James F. Legee, Jr.

CLIFTON - In anticipation of Memorial Day, a City native shared one family's story of service and sacrifice by revisiting what life was like in Clifton 70 years ago during the Second World War.

Saturday's Memorial Day Parade will have a symbolic "grand marshal" representing the the 26 service members from town who died in conflicts from World War I to the Vietnam War .

July 1, 2 and 3 will mark the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, the most costly battle of the American Civil War , and the one generally marked as the turning point of the conflict.

The U.S. Postal Service unveiled two new Civil War Forever Stamps Thursday, including one featuring the Battle of Gettysburg.

An 88-year-old World War II veteran who served in the Battle of the Bulge is being credited for the return of American flags to the Market Street Bridge for Memorial Day.

President Obama has failed to live up to his "transformational" image crafted in the 2008 campaign, winning a lukewarm "meh" from influential scholar Joseph S. Nye Jr., former dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

The empty chair memorial is now located on the courthouse lawn, along with 700 white crosses, to represent prisoners of war and the military members who have been missing in action from as far back as World War I. "We've been working on this POW-MIA memorial for a couple of years," said mayor David Helms.

Do you ever wonder what Elmhurst was like 95 years ago? The Wilder family still owned the Wilder Mansion, trains on the Great Western Railway chugged through town.

In Part I of the series, Fairburn used ink to draw the portraits directly on to the maps .

As former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton embarks on her new career as a paid speaker, she joins a lucrative family business that already has earned her husband more than $100 million since leaving office in 2001.

As former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton embarks on her new career as a paid speaker, she joins a lucrative family business that already has earned her husband more than $100 million since leaving office in 2001.

The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall are to attend the opening day of the Hay Literary Festival in Powys.

Her father is a Jewish Holocaust survivor. Her mother was in the Hitler Youth. She accidentally dated a White Supremacist.