These colorized photos transform black and white images from the late 1940s into vivid moments that make history feel surprisingly real.

In October 1943 the second world war was in full swing and the tide was turning against the Axis powers, though there was no ...

The 6888th's mission was simple in theory, but massive in scale: sort and deliver millions of pieces of backlogged mail to American troops stationed across Europe.

All 20 color plates from Henri Matisse’s “Jazz” book are on view at the Art Institute of Chicago for the first time since being acquired by the museum in 1948.

Permanent exhibit set to open in 2027 includes Fulton Fryar's cabin, which shows past segregation in the Adirondacks.

It’s hard to believe 14 months into Donald Trump’s Reign of Terror 2.0 anyone still believes the administration’s rhetoric around its immigration enforcement practices. I’m a female pastor in a ...

There’s a gleaming building in Austin, Minnesota that celebrates something most people keep hidden in the back of their ...

Charged with documenting Harvard during World War II, Sterling Dow conducted laboratory visits, interviewed researchers, ...

AFTER THE BOMBING of Pearl Harbor, second-generation Japanese American soldiers signed up to fight for the United States in World War II even as their families were locked up in government-run ...

Bearing marks of a censure's stamp and a government star, a few letters on view at Harvard's Houghton Library recall the vast injustice of Japanese internment during WWII — and reverberate now.

Sitting on the farm outside Kersey, Colo., two 1905 Union Pacific wooden boxcars became the home of a Japanese American family of seven toward the end of World War II. The cars will be restored and ...