Folk music might have reached its peak mainstream popularity in the 1960s, but without the groundwork laid by the music of the 1940s, the folk revival in musical hubs like New York City in the 60s ...

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It’s time to stop distributing boring material with off-putting, wooden writing. The next generation of readers depends on it. Jim McCabe of Lewiston produces free e-books about American history. He ...

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St. John’s University’s history professor Susan Schmidt Horning hosted media expert Mary Celeste Kearney of the University of Notre Dame for a lecture titled “Designing the Junior Miss: Some Short ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) – They served their country dating back to the 1940s. A group of Decatur area veterans was invited to take a free dream flight in a 1940s biplane Wednesday. Darryl Fisher of Dream ...

Entrepreneur and real estate investor Bijon Memar completely renovated the 1948 house in a project that preserved its original architectural character. The deed lists the buyer as Jennifer Fonstad, ...

(This story was updated to correct an inaccuracy. U.S. Army Pvt. LeRoy B. Miller Jr. was 19 when he went missing) Family chatter about childhood memories was shared as an escorted vehicle drove to an ...

The author of “Marseille 1940” suggests by his title that we focus on a specific place and time. The events that unfold in his book occur mainly from May to July 1940 in Marseille, the second-most ...

Emerson's Patriot Radio, model FC-400, made in 1940 Philadelphia Museum of Art In the popular imagination, the 1940s were dominated by sacrifice at home and violence abroad as World War II raged on.