World War II

More than 80 years later, Boca Raton still houses about 15 “temporary” buildings from World War II. Decisions over whether to preserve or destroy are in the hands of the property owners.

Black vets fought overseas but returned home to segregation — which made it harder for them to benefit from the GI Bill. Some in Congress hope to remedy that injustice.

COMMENTARY: Disney movies helped turn Latin Americans away from Hitler. Darker versions of those flicks could turn them, and Americans, against Putin.

This is the story of a young sailor, his best friend, and the girl he fell in love with just days before the Pearl Harbor attack that changed everything.

More than a third of U.S. states now support the idea of making daylight saving time permanent. It's already in effect for about eight months of the year.

At StoryCorps, a daughter cherishes memories with her dad, WWII veteran Emilio "Leo" DiPalma, who died of COVID-19 last month at age 93. "I'm honoring his life, not how he died," Emily Aho said.

"People should look at this place and think about our moral responsibility," says Pawel Sawicki, a longtime guide at the Auschwitz museum in Poland.

Julius Eisenstein looks great for having just turned 100 years old. He walked into his second birthday party on Thursday morning waving to a clapping…

Joseph Iscovitz picked up a machine gun to defend his country against attacking Japanese planes on a date that lives in infamy — Dec. 7, 1941.It was still…

A principal in heavily Jewish Boca Raton is out of a job because he refused to say the Holocaust was a real historical event.Spanish River High School…

Aimee Rubensteen is working to find Holocaust survivors in South Florida, meet with them, and preserve their family artifacts. She's the first…

This is citrus harvesting season in Florida, where oranges make up the largest part of an industry that contributes $8 billion a year to the state...