World War II
You Could Run a 'Penguin Post Office' in Antarctica
Three new hires will spend five months living among gentoo penguins and sorting postcards at the world's southernmost post office
With New Holocaust Museum, the Netherlands Reckons With Its Past
The venue, which opens this week, memorializes the Dutch Jews who suffered at the hands of the Nazis
How the Atomic Bomb Set Brothers Robert and Frank Oppenheimer on Diverging Paths
For one of them, the story ended with a mission to bring science to the public
The Moroccan Sultan Who Protected His Country's Jews During World War II
Mohammed V defied the collaborationist Vichy regime, saving Morocco's 250,000 Jews from deportation to Nazi death camps
Climate Change May Unearth Cold War-Era Nuclear Waste Stored by the U.S. in Other Countries
A new report finds that melting ice and rising sea levels could disturb radioactive contamination left over from American nuclear tests after World War II
World War II 'Rumor Clinics' Helped America Battle Wild Gossip
Newspapers and magazines across the United States published weekly columns debunking lurid claims that were detrimental to the war effort
10,000 People Were Evacuated So Experts Could Safely Detonate an Unexploded World War II-Era Bomb
Residents found the German explosive in a backyard garden in Plymouth, England
The Real History Behind FX's 'Shogun'
A new adaptation offers a fresh take on James Clavell's 1975 novel, which fictionalizes the stories of English sailor William Adams, shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and Japanese noblewoman Hosokawa Gracia
A Japanese American Incarceration Camp in Colorado Is America’s Newest National Park
More than 10,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned at the Granada Relocation Center, also known as Amache, during World War II
How a 1924 Immigration Act Laid the Groundwork for Japanese American Incarceration
A Smithsonian curator and a historian discuss the links between the Johnson-Reed Act and Executive Order 9066, which rounded up 120,000 Japanese Americans in camps across the Western U.S.
Recovering the Lost Aviators of World War II
Inside the search for a plane shot down over the Pacific—and the new effort to bring its fallen heroes home
Millennia After Leonidas Made His Last Stand at Thermopylae, a Ragtag Band of Saboteurs Thwarted the Axis Powers in the Same Narrow Pass
A new book chronicles the 16-plus battles that took place in the Greek pass between the ancient era and World War II
Lost Gustav Klimt Portrait Rediscovered Nearly 100 Years After It Vanished
"Portrait of Fräulein Lieser," one of the last works the Austrian artist painted before his death, could sell for over $50 million
Why Descendants of Holocaust Survivors Are Replicating Auschwitz Tattoos
Those who choose to put the numbers on their bodies hope the act will spark conversation about the Holocaust and pay tribute to loved ones who survived
Winston Churchill Wore False Teeth to Deliver Historic Wartime Speeches. Now, They're for Sale
The British prime minister likely acquired the custom gold-mounted dentures around the beginning of World War II
Oppenheimer Has a Long History On Screen, Including the Time the Nuclear Physicist Played Himself
Now with 13 Academy Award nominations to its credit, the blockbuster film comes after nearly eight decades of mythologizing the father of the atomic bomb
The Real History Behind 'Masters of the Air' and the 100th Bomb Group
The long-awaited follow-up to "Band of Brothers" and "The Pacific" centers on an American aerial group nicknamed the "Bloody Hundredth"
The Couple Who Fell in Love in a Nazi Death Camp
A new book chronicles the unlikely connection between Helen Spitzer and David Wisnia, both of whom survived Auschwitz
Court Rules Against Returning Nazi-Looted Pissarro Painting to Jewish Family
Sold in exchange for exit visas in 1939, the estimated $30 million masterpiece will stay at a Spanish museum
What Newly Digitized Records Reveal About the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
The archival trove chronicles the extreme measures administrators took to ensure Black sharecroppers did not receive treatment for the venereal disease
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