Their names sound like a chemistry exam: USS Antimony, USS Calcium, USS Hydrogen - three concrete barges that spent World War II doing exactly one important thing in the Pacific: making ice cream.

How the Lancaster factory, one of the biggest buildings in Europe at the time, helped to create a truly war-winning weapon. It's like Netflix for history... Sign up to History Hit to start watching ...

Amid the industrial warfare of the Second World War, battlefield performance depended on precise logistics and the ability to ...

Factory construction remains at a high level compared with recent history, but most of the increase came under Biden, and there are signs that that boom has faded under Trump, particularly when ...

As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...

"I'd say that many times, 'Why did you ever sign those papers?' But we survived somehow." All these years later, Chervak's ...

On Feb. 2, 1943, the last remnants of Germany’s 6th Army surrendered in the frozen ruins of Stalingrad. The fighting had lasted more than 200 days and cost an estimated 2 million casualties. It marked ...

Legendary aircraft endures in the hearts of aviators.

Florida’s on track to have its worst orange season in nearly a century. The state’s citrus industry generates millions of dollars and supports tens of thousands of jobs. But it has also been up ...

Mud-brick homes were a thing in the 1970s but 30 years earlier, at the end of World War II, Australians were being urged to ...

LOCAL LEADERS AND REPRESENTATIVES of elected officials, from a mayor's office to Congress, sat in a circle late last month at the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond ...

A recent history of guns and empire argues that early modern Europe marked the origins of a uniquely murderous era. But the world it describes is not so different from our own and making sense of its ...