December 8 marks the day when former US President Franklin D Roosevelt made the declaration of war against Japan before ...

Historians have debated for decades whether the U.S. should have entered WWII earlier. The U.S. officially joined the global ...

World War II narratives, up for grabs. In September, China held a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the ...

Books about the civilizations of pre-colonial Indigenous North America, the early Black civil rights movement and post-Second World War Japan are finalists for the US$75,000 Cundill History Prize. The ...

There are no rows of white crosses along the Satsuma Peninsula or victory memorials dotting Kagoshima Bay. No markers at beaches on Kyushu bearing names of American car brands — Buick, Cadillac, Stutz ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Gregory Golodoff spent most of his years on a quiet Alaska island, living an ordinary life, managing a co-op store, fishing for crab and serving as the village council ...

Japan on Saturday marked the 75th anniversary of its surrender in World War II, with Emperor Naruhito expressing “deep remorse” over his country’s wartime actions at a somber annual ceremony curtailed ...