Chris Gordon, the Pentagon editor for Air and Space Forces magazine, discusses why the initial decision was made in the 1940s to rename the Department of War the Department of Defense.

This photo taken in the 1940s, shows the corner of Highway 16 (now Havens Avenue) and Sanborn Boulevard. The biggest building is South Side Texaco. At the time of this photo, there were several Texaco ...

Compared to 2024's recent results - 80 years on - a number of names are still quite popular from 1944 and have been ...

Peter Brown started his working life in a Hornsea amusement arcade before this father made him join Neill & Brown ...

The elegant writing above the entrance to 15 South Block Avenue serves as more of an epitaph than a greeting. Spelled out in ...

Arguing that ‘defence’ sounds weak, US President Donald Trump wants to bring back the title America used until 1947: the ...

A visual research exhibition titled ‘Occult Objects in India and England (1850-1940): Nuanced Perspectives’ was organised at the Nandan Gallery of Kala Bhavana in Visva-Bharati, Shantiniketan, from 25 ...

Thanks to Mike and Sheryl Madden, we have a chance to look back at Lake Placid’s sports-jammed schedule for the winter months ...

A draper’s shop which sold everything! Just a big bazaar! And a fine staff too: a lot of dandies who pushed things about like porters at a railway station, who treated the goods and the customers like ...

Sabrina Carpenter doesn’t need much help selling her new album, Man’s Best Friend. According to Billboard.com, the songstress ...

Terre Haute had several different breweries and beer brands associated with it throughout its earlier years. But, as the ...

The 1940 U.S. Census lists my Dad’s occupation as “Day Laborer” and so he labeled himself all his life, turning aside every ...