In August 1942, thousands of U.S. Marines were stranded on Guadalcanal with limited supplies and no certainty of rescue. After the U.S. Navy withdrew, the Marines understood the reality of their ...

New Jersey plays a prominent role in Ken Burns' latest documentary, "The American Revolution," now airing on PBS.

Rob Reiner, the director behind some of the most beloved classics of the 20th century, was found dead along with his wife ...

More than 9,000 balloons — each carrying four 11 lb incendiary devices and one 33 lb anti-personnel bomb — were deployed ...

This war film is more epic than the critics made it out to be upon its release, and is finding a new audience on streaming.

The documentary "The 100th, Seeds of Aloha" aims to honor the legacy of these soldiers and their contributions to both ...

Born JoAnne Deborah Byron in 1947 into a family of strivers in Queens, she split her time between her mother’s home in New ...

David Nasaw thinks we owe Brokaw’s (and Ambrose’s and Spielberg’s) tale-telling and its legacy a second, and much more gimlet ...

James Swanson’s story begins in Evanston, Illinois, in 1926, during the Great Depression. Growing up as the son of a minister who moved the family across Montana, Oregon, and Iowa, James learned ...