History in East Asia is never just history. It is weaponized, re-scripted, and deeply entangled in present-day struggles for legitimacy, identity, and power.

Yang Huafeng, a 92-year-old Chinese army veteran, recalls the modest military presence at the founding of communist China in 1949.

Their appeal was underscored at a seminar in Beijing on Aug 19, marking the release of A New History of World War II, a ...

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at World War II, which lasted from 1939 to 1945. Causes of World War II The Peace of Paris – The treaties worked out in Paris at the end of World ...

The "Rosie the Riveter" campaign from the Office of War Information was determined to get more women to work and free men to fight.

To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, we asked historians to share their favorite museums around the world.

A natural rubber shortage in World War 2 caused U.S. engineers to turn toward synthetic versions. Now, synthetic rubber is used in car tires.

The lean, bespectacled veteran from Kentucky sat silently in the early evening of Aug. 14 on a stage in the cavernous U.S. Freedom Pavilion in the National WWII Museum. With vintage war planes hanging ...

Long before he was dueling Darth Vader in Star Wars, Sir Alec Guinness starred in this tour de force WWII film as Colonel ...