The younger sister of Christian Dior, Catherine endured brutal torture as a WWII Resistance spy. Her courage and resilience through unimaginable hardships became the inspiration behind Dior’s iconic ...

Megan Monaghan Rivas has been artistic director of Connecticut Repertory Theatre and head of UConn’s department of dramatic ...

In June 1940, as France collapsed and Britain faced the prospect of resisting the Nazis alone, Winston Churchill searched for a French leader willing to keep fighting ...

Nancy Grace Augusta Wake was born Aug. 30, 1912, in Wellington, New Zealand, the youngest of six children. Her father, a journalist, left the family shortly after moving them to Sydney, Australia.

This week I was excited to come across an unofficial holiday I don’t remember even seeing in passing before this week. It’s ...

In celebration of Women’s History Month, Gail Borden Public Library in downtown Elgin is hosting a “250 Years of Impactful ...

Before the marches, women were already fighting. Meet the Soviet bombers, the deadliest sniper in history, and the spy who ...

The Weekend Read / I spent years as a labor organizer. Marguerite Duras’s war novel taught me that the strongest fighters are ...

On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron arrived by helicopter on the nuclear-armed aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle to announce that France would lead a European naval group in the Middle East.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, second-generation Japanese American soldiers signed up to fight for the United States in World War II even as their families were locked up in government-run ...

AFTER THE BOMBING of Pearl Harbor, second-generation Japanese American soldiers signed up to fight for the United States in World War II even as their families were locked up in government-run ...

All 20 color plates from Henri Matisse’s “Jazz” book are on view at the Art Institute of Chicago for the first time since being acquired by the museum in 1948.