Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...

she was accepted into the Army Reserve. She was one of just 500 Black nurses to serve during World War II, out of a total of 50,000 — a result of government caps that kept thousands more Black ...

Connecticut native Morton N. Katz, a WWII combat veteran who became a lawyer and represented needy clients in criminal cases ...

Leftenant, who had served as a fighter pilot — one of the Tuskegee Airmen — during World War II ... of an Army nurse. “She was striking, standing proud in her starched white uniform ...

Technological advancements, from digitized public records to DNA testing sites to video archives, amount to a golden age for genealogy. And for no other demographic is family history research more ...

Janice Gavern lives to tell the story of her sister soldiers and to ensure their history will be remembered. Gavern, a ...

CHICAGO - As a kid growing up in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood on the south side, Lt. Col. Brandon Singleton, Finance Officer, 85th U.S. Army Reserve ...

But her plans to sign up as a military nurse ... World War II soldiers in a segregated ward. “Even when everything was literally stacked up against her, she stood proud, put that uniform on ...

The Fort Pierce Highwaymen Museum is expected to open Feb. 15-16 during its namesake's annual festival weekend.

Instead of congratulating the congresswoman, numerous conservative influencers chose to mock and falsely accuse her ...

At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...