The Imirce database provides access an extraordinary collection of Irish emigrant letters and memoirs sent from North America ...

The history of the Irish in New York is well known and well visited. However, it is off the island of Manhattan that one of ...

U.S. Army Cpl. Thaddeus Pecorak earned a Bronze Star during the Italian Campaign of WWII. He passed away in 2024 and was ...

Luxembourg is a tiny, dot-on-the-map country in Western Europe, wedged between Belgium, France and Germany. As you might imagine, visitors to the region often skip Luxembourg because it doesn’t have ...

PORT RICHMOND, Staten Island — It’s a burial ground founded in the 1850s by, and for, enslaved African Americans, and ended up becoming the final resting place for some 1,000 children, women and men.

Scores of remarkable African Americans — soldiers, residents, creators, inventors, businessmen, scholars — have called Marietta home over the generations. Many are buried there, but some of their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just south of Milan, the American Cemetery memorializes U.S. troops who helped free Italy from Nazi rule. Levi's is having a ...

FLORENCE, Metropolitan City of Florence — As the 2026 Winter Olympics unfold in Milan, a solemn reminder of American sacrifice lies just south of the host Italian city. The Florence American Cemetery ...

HANOVER COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A 92-year-old Ashland woman is working to preserve the Hickory Hill Slave and African American Cemetery, which is rooted in the community’s history. Hanover County shared ...

Manila, Philippines (CNN) — Two gravesites, less than 10 miles apart in a crowded, noisy, Asian metropolis of 14 million, stand testament to the horror, sacrifice and history of World War II. Go to ...

As the new year started in 1945, the war in Europe was still raging. Since D-Day on June 6, 1944, the Allied armies had been pushing the German Army east across the continent, but the German offensive ...

Deep in Marion County, Georgia, we explore a forgotten African American cemetery once connected to a church that has completely disappeared. Many graves are unmarked and undocumented, but what stood ...