Memories of Childhood in an American Internment Camp
An 84-year-old man looks back at life inside Minidoka War Relocation Center.
The 10th Mountain Division’s Deadly Uphill Battle in Italy
In 1945, the newly fielded U.S. 10th Mountain Division battled the enemy and the elements in Italy's Northern Apennines.
The Artist Who Dared to Take On the Nazis From Their Earliest Days
Grosz and Hitler were equally traumatized by Germany’s defeat—but they coped in wildly divergent ways.
Explore Life Along the Levee
New Orlean, the Confederacy's largest and most commercially important city, fell to the Union in May 1862
Red Dawn in Romanovka, Russia
Early one morning in 1919 Bolsheviks ambushed the camp of an American expeditionary force outside Romanovka, Russia. But why were the doughboys even there?
The Taking of Montfaucon
Ninety years ago a soon-to-be-famous author wrote of his own experiences in World War I.
Online Exclusive: Gold Fever Leads to Environmental Disaster in California
High-pressure hydraulic mining operations send toxic sludge down river, inundating towns and farms
Field Notes: Derailment Closes Parts of Harpers Ferry National Park
Two empty freight train cars fell into the Potomac River, closing sites including John Brown's Fort and The Point
Strong Men vs. Strongmen: When American Athletes Try to Play Fair With Totalitarian Regimes
Jesse Owens won a coup in Hitler's Germany, but today's NBA stars kowtow to China
Stepping Up to the Plate
A reader seeks clues about a mysterious war souvenir
A Closer Look at First Assault at Antietam’s ‘Creek of Death’
Two of the 11th Connecticut's officers died in gallant rush on Burnside Bridge
Libbie Custer’s Literary Love Affair With Her Late Husband
For nearly six decades after Little Big Horn, George Custer's widow burnished the general's reputation and wrote movingly of reconciliation with former foes
