My interest in Japanese Catholicism was reignited recently by the Nagasaki Bell Project, a noble effort being led by professor James Nolan of Williams College, the grandson of a doctor who was one of ...

The president wants to mark May 8 as “Victory Day for World War II.” This would come as news to my Dad and the millions of fellow U.S. Marines, Allies and civilians who continued to fight island to ...

In the history books, it feels like a year when everything happened all at once. 1945 began with the liberation of Auschwitz ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's new cesium fountain clock is one of the most precise atomic clocks ever ...