Eighteen-year-old George Berkowitz, wearing his brand-new Marine uniform, lined up in military order with his Dartmouth College classmates and awaited his orders....
On a wretchedly cold Maine night in 1915, a lightly dressed German army lieutenant walked from his hotel and placed 60 pounds...
In 1892, Manuel Viera Martins retired from whaling and bought a cottage in the Waquoit section of Falmouth, Mass. He and his...
There’s a lot more to the Trapp Family Singers than you’ll find in The Sound of Music, one of the most beloved...
In 1918, America was at war. The country needed to devote all of its industrial might to victory in Europe. A war...
One year before Pearl Harbor, many Americans thought the United States would never enter World War II. They might have thought otherwise...