Providence native Jarek Marte’s life-changing enlistment led him to serve aboard USS Iwo Jima as a Navy weapons specialist.

It is Shakespeare’s longest work, clocking in at five acts and 30,557 words in its unabridged form. Those words focus largely ...

Bowdoin College - Maine's oldest -- was chartered in 1794 when Maine was still part of Massachusetts. One of its most famous alumni is today Brunswick's most beloved former resident, the late Col.

A prolific writer and speaker, Howe championed various social causes, including women's suffrage and world peace.

At the Varnum Armory Museum, a band playing Civil War era music played some tunes, and several speakers spoke about the war ...

General Assembly passes legislation establishing a Department of State Police, giving Gov. Aram J. Pothier responsibility for ...

For those WUN readers who have been following my Voices contributions over the past few months, you’ll know I’ve spent a lot ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

As the sun began to set behind the trees at Pocasset Cemetery, members of the Sons of Union veterans gathered to honor the ...

In Japan's southwestern prefecture of Okinawa, American troops landed on its main island on April 1, 1945 toward the end of World War Two. Eighty years since, people in Yomitan Village where US ...

Reliving 1942 at the real-life Rick’s Café Casablanca, now a symbol of resilience and connection like the one in the Bogart-Bergman screen classic.

Relief efforts from Friday’s devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake will be especially complicated with the country in embroiled in civil war, which began after the army seized power from the ...