History in the News

Her father is a Jewish Holocaust survivor. Her mother was in the Hitler Youth. She accidentally dated a White Supremacist.

WALKING the 96-mile West Highland Way is a tough enough challenge without donning army kit and blister-inducing World War I boots.

Observance ceremony: 10-11 a.m. Monday on the monument deck with color guards and the American Legion Band; readings of letters from the war; free parking and shuttle from Crown Center parking lots at 27th Street and Grand Boulevard; 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The National World War I Museum will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday; discounted admission ... (more)

Calling his show Early Sunday Morning after an Edward Hopper painting, photographer/filmmaker Kaufman channels the luminous stillness of Hopper's early 20th-century urban scenes in order to pay homage to Toronto's pre-World War I red-brick main-street architecture.

Of the European Modernists who came of age during World War I, the protean Hans Richter has been among the hardest to pigeonhole.

She was an enigma wrapped in a riddle surrounded by an iron corset. Loreta Janeta Velazquez fought in the American Civil War as man, spied - perhaps for both sides - as a woman, and was denounced as one of the great literary hoaxers of the 19th century after she wrote a book about it.

As millions prepare to enjoy a day off and three-day weekend, a group of locals gathered at Veterans Memorial Park to remember those who gave their lives so others can enjoy such freedoms.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton touted the efforts of a group combatting malnutrition and blindness during an awards speech in New York City.

As the Obama scandals surround the White House, some conservatives are suggesting that -- finally -- the media are "getting tough" on Obama.

Many are cynical that the current media coverage of the Obama Regime scandals is going to lead to much of anything.

President Barack Obama is a nightmare for political comedians. He's too cool, too smart, too ... good at this whole leadership thing.

Almost 200,000 African Americans served in the Union army during the Civil War. Now, two of them have received special honors because of their connection to first lady Michelle Obama.

I think Hillary Clinton really does want to shake lose all of her potential scandals now just in case she does decide to make a full blown dash for the White House in a few years.

Former Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-New York, resigned from Congress in 2011 after being embroiled for weeks in a sex scandal linked to his lewd online exchanges with women.

Belle Sorokin has been volunteering with Lee Memorial for 20 years. She was born during World War I and was married during the Great Depression.

If you want a sign of the genuine grassroots conservative zeitgeist at the moment, don't listen to blind-quote assurances in the MSM that Republicans have Scandalmania '13 "under control" and won't let the this turn into a rerun of the counterproductive effort to drive Bill Clinton from office.

Red-faced Republicans, circling and preparing to pounce on a second-term Democratic president they loathe, do not respect, and certainly do not fear.

The race has attracted the attention of organized labor, Bill Clinton, and a longtime ally to President Obama.

US President Barack Obama will visit Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania in June, the White House has said.

With less than two weeks to go before their springtime adjournment, Illinois lawmakers are being pressured over whether they will make their state the 13th to approve gay marriage.