On the first Sunday of each month, many castles, museums, and historic sites across Île-de-France open their doors to ...

A mess cook's sick call visit at Camp Funston became the first recorded military case of an outbreak that killed more U.S. soldiers than the Germans did in WWI.

A poppy picked from Flanders Fields during the First World War and sent to a US soldier’s fiancée has been unearthed more than a century later. Harold Alfred Stivers pressed the delicate flower into a ...

Silvio Scaroni, Italy's second-highest WWI ace, scored 26 victories through steady combat flying rather than legend, ...

Some places have more history than is good for them.

Soldiers of the American Revolution: African American of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment; New England militiaman; frontier rifleman wearing a Virginia hunting shirt; French officer in a blue coat.

But royal fashion also plays a surprisingly crucial role in diplomacy and image-making, and every dress or handbag tells an important story. Justine Picardie: When I met Queen Elizabeth II, it really ...