Marie West, a World War II veteran and longtime Monument resident, died Jan. 25, less than three weeks shy of what would have been her 103rd birthday, according to her family. West passed away ...

Commemorating a painful past and protecting the vibrant present are not opposing forces in this German resort area.

From 1943 to 1945, Bloch produced 96 editions of 'The Underwater Cabaret' while he and other Jews hid from the Nazis in an attic crawlspace.

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The world is constantly changing, and eventually, our memory alone isn't enough to portray how things really were. It can distort important details, leaving gaps in our understanding of the past. That ...

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Once the whaling capital of the world, New Bedford remembers Herman Melville’s literary masterpiece with an annual reading ...

Geoffrey Beene, one of the most celebrated fashion designers of the late 20th century, first attended Tulane as a pre-med ...

There are several famous comic book characters who are based on the actual appearance of real-life celebrities.

In the mid-1800s, before the Civil War, Thomas White fled his enslavement in Maryland for freedom. It was a risky escape, one ...

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