Adelaide Hall performed at the Cotton Club, sang with Duke Ellington and took to the stage in the Berlin of Sally Bowles. And ...

See 1940s Louisville. From soldiers leaving for war to the Courier Journal's new building, and a championship team. See Derby ...

Chuck Norris was an early king of home video. A pioneer of VHS classics with escalating numeral modifiers—Delta Force 2: The ...

Chuck Norris, the action star who became one of the most recognizable figures in American pop culture, has died at age 86 after being hospitalized in Hawaii. A statement attributed to his family was ...

Deep divisions over how Americans remember their past are coming into sharper focus as the nation approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Judy Woodruff reports for her ...

Born into poverty in Arizona, his family was drawn to California’s fields. There, he became a civil rights icon for Mexican Americans.

Long before WWII, American culture, technology, and migration were already shaping Italy. A new study traces these early transatlantic exchanges.

On February 29, 1940, at the 12th Academy Awards, Hattie McDaniel made history by becoming the first African American to ...

America’s religious identity continues to evolve, and recent Gallup polling from 2025 put a spotlight on a sizable shift ...

In the popular imagination, the 1940s were dominated by sacrifice at home and violence abroad as World War II raged on. But at a new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, curators aim to ...

In a new book about everyday existence in wartime Berlin, students, musicians, Nazi maidens, and members of the resistance ...

In these 2025 Advanced Life Support Guidelines, the American Heart Association provides comprehensive recommendations for the resuscitation and management of adults experiencing cardiac arrest, ...