Sometimes I feel like it is “deja vu” all over again as Yogi Berra would say, history repeating itself – or at least rhyming. People of the world have been here before. They have seen bully ...

At the beginning of “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting," the great Czech author Milan Kundera tells the story of a cold, snowy day in Czechoslovakia in 1948 at the height of Communist rule. A man ...

Reenactors in olive-colored uniforms ran and ducked over snow-covered ground, weapons-bearing military vehicles rolled along roads and the sounds of 1940s firearms boomed through the air on Feb. 23 at ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American Jews each day. Eighty years on, few people ...

With Dec. 7 marking the 84th anniversary and with so few veterans who witnessed that awful day first-hand remaining, the attack on Pearl Harbor seems like a moment fading into history with each ...

QUINCY — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Wendell Mauter says it’s important to look back at the global conflict. “World War II helped shape so much of the world we live in today,” the ...

Thursday is the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. As leaders of countries that suffered greatly during and after the war, we attach great importance to this date. We remember our ...

My son and I take a yearly trip to a U.S. historical site. This year, we traveled to the World War II Museum in New Orleans.

Behind the familiar history of World War II lies a forgotten front, lined with unsung heroes in the battlefields of China whose stories have largely gone untold. Do you have questions about the ...

Therefore, Japan must uphold the principles of the United Nations Charter including peaceful dispute resolution, avoid ...

SEATTLE — Ninety years to the day of the first flight of the B-17, one of the last surviving Flying Fortress bombers roared into Boeing Field where it all began. “Sentimental Journey,” a ...