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.

During World War I, the American Library Association built libraries on military training camps in a project that championed patriotism, literacy, and self-improvement.

A writer for the Baltimore Sun compared Hitler to the sixteenth-century Catholic Saint Ignatius. Archbishop Curley had something to say about that.

During World War II, almost a half million POWs were interned in the United States, where they forged sympathetic relationships with Black American soldiers.