This restored and colorized footage offers a quiet look at life in the United States during the 1940s, a time shaped by the events of World War II. While soldiers served abroad, daily life at home ...

This colorized and restored footage takes us back to a time when life in America moved at a different pace. From the 1940s into the 1950s, everyday scenes of beaches, city streets, family vacations, ...

Before the United States entered World War II, few Americans would have suspected that the territory of Alaska would play a role in America's fight against the Axis powers. In 1940, Alaska was still a ...

When Hitler invaded France in 1940, the conventional wisdom was that the French had the best military in Europe. This was despite Germany's crushing victory over Poland and several other powers ...

Eight years before he and his wife Ethel were executed in the electric chair at New York‘s notorious Sing Sing prison, Soviet spy Julius Rosenberg pleaded with federal officials to keep his job with ...

Agents were disguised as gravediggers and gardeners, per the FBI. One agent even acted as a decoy and posed as Grable — ...