Although their contributions have been largely forgotten, women played an active role in Washington DC’s air defense system during World War II.

Nearly 2 million biological samples from people affected by radiation from World War II nuclear bombings are stored in facilities in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Thousands of Palestinian Arabs volunteered to fight against Germany and Italy during World War II, serving alongside Jewish volunteers from Mandate Palestine.

Celebrated and damned as the “father of the atomic bomb,” theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer lived a complicated scientific and political life.

The light management of forests in Normandy since WWII helped preserve the remains of German supply depots and other artifacts of war hidden in the woodlands.

Recruited to the war effort thanks to their deft research skills and technological know-how, librarians used microforms to gather and share intelligence with Allied forces.

In the aftermath of World War II, preserving the nuclear family became a key pillar of liberal democratic ideology.

There were 35 million prisoners of war held during World War II. One soldier's diary full of collages and drawings brings a human dimension to that number.

The legacy of anti-Mussolini resistance in the northern Italian city endures as fascist impulses once again loom.

Prisoners not only supported the war effort in surprising ways during World War II, they fought and died in it.