World War II
Russia marks 75 years since Nazi surrender at Stalingrad
February 5, 2018With over a million deaths, it was history's bloodiest battle and started the Nazis on their long retreat back to Berlin.
Read moreTwo new films, “Dunkirk” and “The Darkest Hour”: Who won the war?
January 19, 2018In the run up to the Academy Awards, two highly touted, vastly different popular films refocus attention on World War II.
Read moreStatues fall too in Ukraine, as fascists erase Soviet past
September 11, 2017Ukraine's Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko speaks to Ben Chacko about the wave of historical destruction engulfing his country.
Read moreJapanese American internment commemorated by a new oratorio
February 21, 2017The project was timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, that resulted in the forced removal and incarceration of around 120,000 Japanese...
Read moreUnionist gets top French medal for heroic World War II service
November 10, 2016Frank Lee, 98, a former lithographer and a member of Graphic Communications Conference/ IBT Local 14 in Philadelphia, and union pension fund administrator, was awarded the French Legion of Honor medal in a solemn ceremony of...
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