To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, we asked historians to share their favorite museums around the world.

It was 1939. Germany, under the leadership of Nazi dictator Adolph Hitler, had already annexed Austria, the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia without much problem. The Americans considered Germany ...

In the bitter winter of 1941, British military prisoners in Nazi-occupied Germany huddled around a Monopoly set, dazzled by the contents that awaited them. They didn’t pluck Community Chest cards.

At the turn of the 1940s, World War 2 was in full swing, with the Allied and Axis forces doing battle across Europe, Africa, and the Pacific Ocean. The United States hadn't gotten directly involved in ...

Just two weeks after American forces landed at Normandy on D-Day, Jack Leroy Tueller, one of those Americans, was taking sniper fire with the rest of his unit. Instead of sitting helplessly, Tueller ...

If anyone would benefit from some quality time at a history museum, it’s White House officials. Take Vance’s line on the end of World War II, for example.

South Africa played a considerable role in World War II, but this is being wiped from our historical memory. This year is the 80th anniversary of the allied victories over Nazism in Europe and ...

Russia and China's presentation of World War II is predicated of fictions that would make Stalin and Mao proud. And historians ashamed.

Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor gravely damaged the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet's strength, but fortunately, no American aircraft carriers were sunk in the attack. As a result, when the United States ...