With the help of a ceremonial sword, a symbolic and long-held tradition of Navy celebrations, friends and family cut the cake on a historic milestone for one former Navy pilot and revered patriot of ...

During the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of German (and Italian) PoWs were shipped to the United Kingdom and even ...

Along Bunker Hill Road, a family farming legacy spans over a few dozen acres. Scott Warren, owner of Proctor Hill Farm, is another generational farmer who followed in his grandfather’s footsteps. The ...

I was at the Friendly Bookstore recently donating some books for the library. To my delight, Zoe Medlin Caywood was helming ...

As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...

Transferred late in World War II, Japanese prisoners of war encountered suspicion in southwest Iowa before labor demands ...

From life as an orphaned cub in Iran to wartime fame across Europe, discover the Polish Army's most unusual recruit.

The Battle of the Bulge is remembered for tanks, snow, and last-ditch resistance, but it was decided by something far less ...

A focus on certain types of power foods helped the nation survive a blockade. A British shopkeeper cancels the coupons in a homemaker's ration book for the tea, sugar, cooking fats and bacon during ...

Israel routinely confiscates what it calls uncultivated Palestinian land. In the West Bank towns of Beit Furik or Beit Dajan, farmers who refuse to be driven from their territory are subject to ...