In November, Franklin Roosevelt won his third term as U.S. president. This broke something called the Washington precedent — a norm that the very first U.S. president, George Washington, set when he ...

On June 18, 2019, LNP celebrated its 225th anniversary. The earliest newspaper to which today’s LNP traces its roots was the Lancaster Journal, first published on June 18, 1794, by William Hamilton ...

After the stock market crash in 1929, thirteen million people were out of work. This triggered the Great Depression, which lasted through the late 1930s. The worldwide economic devastation that ensued ...

The air raids by German Luftwaffe planes on English cities and towns in 1940 and 1941—attacks known collectively and famously as the Blitz—were terrifying, but they failed in their key aim: namely, to ...

The Battle of Calabria, fought on July 9, 1940, was a key naval engagement between the British Mediterranean Fleet and the Italian Navy off the southern coast of Italy. It was Italy’s first major ...

This story is part of a seven-part series exploring Ann Arbor through the decades, from the 1930s through the ‘90s. Additional stories will be published throughout the week. ANN ARBOR, MI — The 1940s ...

French Prime Minister Daladier overplays his hand and is replaced after his vision regarding Scandinavia wasn't widely shared in the French parliament. Meanwhile, the French and British in France are ...

A hangar in the Boulder Airport will be transformed into a vintage nightclub a la Rick’s Cafe Americain in “Casablanca” on June 16 for the fourth annual 1940s World War II Era Ball. The event will ...

World War II was certainly a defining era in U.S. history and in the lives of the generation which came of age then. But for Jane Leder, it was the change in relationships between men and women that ...