HOUSTON, Texas -- Four surviving Chinese American veterans of World War II and others were presented with one of the nation's highest civilian honors on Sunday. In a ceremony commemorating their ...

Private Thomas Martin was one of 20,000 African American men who trained at Montford Point, a segregated Marine Corps camp in ...

This photo provided by NASA shows mathematician Katherine Johnson in 1966. automation A group of Black female mathematicians, aeronautical engineers and human computers whose groundbreaking work for ...

The 1980 U.S. Olympic men’s ice hockey team defied nearly insurmountable odds to defeat the Soviet Union, the world’s largest hockey superpower, propelling them to win a gold medal and the nation’s ...

Dubbed the "Miracle on Ice," the 1980 U.S. men's hockey team pulled off one of the most shocking upsets in sports history by defeating the heavily favored Soviet Union 4-3 at the Winter Olympics in ...

DANVILLE, Calif. (AP) — At age 106, Alice Darrow can clearly recall her days as a nurse during World War II, part of a pioneering group that dodged bullets as they hauled packs full of medical ...