While working on a biography of her great-grandmother Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Fiona Donovan unearthed a trove of letters ...

In small town America, boys with absent heads of households were taken under the wing of World War I veterans from such ...

Amanda Seyfried as Mother Ann Lee, documentary "Rising Above Helene," and more films playing around the Triangle this month.

We’ve borrowed so much from British sporting culture – but their fans sing with gusto, and we’re so sheepish in comparison.

The year 1926 was notable in many ways, from a handful of famous firsts, birthdays, deaths, cost of living and much more. This is the 13th year we have dived back 100 years, researching famous firsts, ...

Lots of good quality entries were received to the Christmas Quiz. Many were quite informative and in one or two cases an ...

That exact sensation awaits adults at Rolling Hills Antique Mall in Harrisonburg, Virginia. In our disposable era of planned obsolescence and particle board furniture, there’s something deeply ...

For the first time in American history, U.S. soldiers would fight under a foreign command. In 93 minutes, they would help win ...

The Army on Monday identified the two American soldiers who were killed in Palmyra, Syria, over the weekend as Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, 25, of Des Moines, Iowa and Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, ...

When Americans sat down to Christmas dinner in 1918, the meal wasn't just a celebration — it was an act of patriotism. During World War I, the U.S. Food Administration urged households to save wheat, ...

Last week, for only the fourth time in its nearly 70-year history, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater company began its new season under the leadership of a different Artistic Director: Alicia ...

The 37mm gun was widely used during World War One because it was the smallest caliber permitted to fire explosive projectiles under the 1899 Hague accords, and one notable variant was built by ...