On May 5, 1945, a quiet spring afternoon near Bly, Oregon, became a tragic moment in American history. Six innocent lives were lost when a Japanese balloon bomb (one of the mysterious Fu-Go weapons ...

Betty Reid Soskin, who rose to national fame as the oldest National Park Service ranger and used the spotlight to talk about ...

When she was 85, the longtime community activist was hired as an interpretive ranger at the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front ...

Betty Reid Soskin, who used her fame as the oldest National Park Service ranger to raise awareness about often-overlooked and ...

Betty Reid Soskin, who became a national figure as the oldest-serving National Park Service ranger and used her platform to illuminate the African American experience during the Second World War, has ...

A fixture of the East Bay’s historical landscape, Betty Reid Soskin spent more than a decade helping visitors understand ...

Discover how the Works Progress Administration (WPA) transformed American employment by creating 8.5 million jobs from ...

SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio is officially honoring a group of heroes who changed American history. On Thursday, city leaders ...

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As the West African country of Mali teeters on becoming the first nation on the continent to be ruled by an al Qaeda–linked terror organization, a State Department ...

Around 1.6 million Americans were removed from the federal health program Medicaid during the first six months of President Donald Trump's second term, according to data collected by the health news ...

World War II was a tumultuous time that saw combat in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Despite how large the planet is, a war that involved every major nation made it seem that much smaller, and ...