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Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

The second world war marked a turning point in the history of childhood. To train young people to build peace, authorities ...

The unexploded ordnance, discovered during a site renovation, were described as “practice bombs” that still carry a charge ...

Chava Rosenfarb (February 9, 1923 – January 30, 2011) was a Holocaust survivor and Jewish-Canadian author of Yiddish poetry ...

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...

In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque reinvented a genre.

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Black History Month is an occasion for Janice Kelsh to salute her father’s Word War II service. She is chronicling his remarkable contributions to the community. At the Doleman Black Heritage Museum, ...