An ideal society would equitably distribute the means of production, and that includes musical production. Universal music ...

As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...

Partisan Song” tells how a Jewish engineer from Ukraine be a guerilla war hero. His music will be heard for the first time in ...

The 10-CD set ‘Classic V-Disc Big Band Jazz Sessions’ collects more than 200 tracks recorded for American soldiers during the ...

On Jan. 26, 1945, 19-year-old East Texan Audie Murphy almost single-handedly held off a German counteroffensive in occupied ...

Radiohead's guitarist has long been a film composer worthy of awards attention. His score for PTA's masterpiece may finally make him an Oscar winner.

By Tim HenneyReader Contributor The last era in which our beloved 250-year-old democracy was faced with extinction, as it is today, was the early 1940s, when we of the free world (Allies) defended ...

The World War II siege of Bastogne will be the focus at Erie's Hagen History Center on Jan. 17. The daylong event will celebrate American soldiers who refused to surrender though surrounded by German ...

Les Schrenk and Casey Bukowski already share a special bond as World War II veterans. After all, not many from the Greatest Generation are still alive. But when Schrenk, 102, and Bukowski, 101, met ...

In November 1942, American and German forces met for the first time in a brutal tank battle at Chouigui Pass, deep in Tunisia. Armed with the M3 Stuart, U.S. crews faced seasoned German tanks in a ...

A group of World War II veterans are heading overseas from Boston to see their old battlegrounds. The trip was made possible by fundraisers and donations. It's an incredible operation, giving the ...

Arguments about history are proliferating as the postwar order led by the United States crumbles. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. In September, China held a military parade to ...