Queen Mary, Bremen, Europa, and Normandie—as they rush across the Atlantic in August 1939, torn between profit, prestige, and survival. From frantic evacuations and zigzag wartime routes to ...

The fighter aircraft was never more important than it was during the global calamity that began in 1939. However, at this ...

Gertrude Beaton, nee Wepsala, skied with the Tyee Ski Runners and missed her Olympic shot when the Games were cancelled in ...

Eleven cadets and midshipmen who played for their service academies would go on to receive the nation's highest award for ...

York Wagon Works' role was producing and repairing the standard wagon types, but also building many of the more specialised ...

A Jewish organization helped him flee as a teen. Years later as a US soldier, my father went in search of the parents he'd ...

His family learned of his death on Dec. 16, 1941. Within three weeks North End leaders arranged to have Mussolini Street ...

How does the Manchester City striker's record compare to those who have gone before him, like the legendary Dixie Dean and ...

Arguably, the Bréguet Br.1050 Alizé (French: “Tradewind”) does not match the spectacularly appealing ugliness of its British ...

A leading Surrealist, Meret Oppenheim brought her singular vision of domesticity to life in this 18th-century Alpine summer ...

An overdue MoMA show reminds us that Lam pursued his own dialogue with African and Afro-diasporic visual cultures, even as ...

In the 1930s, many foreign correspondents refused to cover Germany. Instead, George Ward Price got close to Hitler – and was ...