A Great Dane named Juliana received a medal during World War II for defusing a bomb by urinating on it. A Great Dane named ...

Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution was established under a bill by Assemblymen Warren Furutani, ...

Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86 ...

The Bielski Partisans waged plenty of combat action against the Nazi scourge, much to the chagrin of the oppressors. January 27 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and to commemorate that ...

A free symposium at the museum Feb. 15 will look at African American engagment in World War II and its place in social ...

I have long been opposed to naming public facilities for politicians. More than once I have fulminated that the fetish for ...

The American Library Association (ALA) today announced the top books, digital media, video and audio books for children and ...

West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...

Five World War II veterans received an 80 Years of Victory Medal at the Veterans Club in Beatrice on Friday. Scott Bates, the ...

Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi didn’t set out to be a civil rights hero. And she didn’t promote herself as one. But she played a key role in ending the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans – many of them U ...

Retired Ambassador Ryan Crocker, a career diplomat, spoke to a hometown audience on Monday evening at a regular meeting of ...