From Homer, to the World War I poets, to the novelists of Vietnam, chroniclers of war are alert to the dangers of glorification. This Memorial Day, it's good to ask why. Perhaps no conflict in ...

Time magazine, one of the best-known periodicals in worldwide publishing, years ago developed a series of hand-drawn color portraits of World War II figures for its covers. Fifty-five of those covers ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Joey Balfour is the Assistant Director of Oral History at the National WWII Museum. The digital collections of the WWII Museum is vital to the memory and lessons of humanity. The ...

Hey everyone, before you accuse me of spamming the forum, I got approval from the mods to post this. My wife runs an auction house and a consignor is cleaning out the estate of an avid collector of ...

Mel Neal didn’t remember the exact year he and lifelong friend Frank Ward acquired the first piece in their sprawling collection of U.S. military collectibles, but it was sometime in the late 1970s.

The film director and New York icon discusses the trials and triumphs behind the posters featured in his Brooklyn Museum exhibition. One section of the exhibition made me pause: a hallway-like area ...

A Mechanicville restaurant owner is being remembered through a one-of-a-kind WWII photo collection that still lives on today.

Before he became infamous, Adolf Hitler tried to make it as an artist. This video explores a rare private collection of his paintings, alongside haunting WWII artifacts. It’s a chilling look at the ...

A letter from a St. Louis solider stationed in China during World War II sits on the table at the Missouri History Library in St. Louis, on Oct. 22, 2025. Christopher Alan Gordon, director of library ...