Finding a long-lost uncle’s name on a census form or discovering that Grandpa identified himself as a mural painter: It’s the stuff genealogists and history hunters live for. It also creates the kind ...

WEATHERLY — Visitors to Eckley Miners’ Village on Saturday could be forgiven for forgetting what decade they were in for a few moments. Re-enactors dressed as soldiers from World War II meandered ...

Emerson's Patriot Radio, model FC-400, made in 1940 Philadelphia Museum of Art In the popular imagination, the 1940s were dominated by sacrifice at home and violence abroad as World War II raged on.

Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting March 10th, 2009 - Buy Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing DVD ...

Although the Portuguese immigrant population declined in the 1920s, the number of Portuguese owning their homes increased. At the beginning of the decade 87 Portuguese born overseas owned their ...

The 1940s was a particularly turbulent decade in world history, dominated by the Second World War causing widespread destruction all over the globe. As the Allies and Axis powers battled in different ...