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Written by Todd DePastino March is Women’s History Month, something that would not have been possible during the Cold War, when Women’s Day, March 8,...
We’re happy to announce our Spring 2023 in-person program event schedule. This will be our 15th year of VBC storytelling breakfasts, where people of all backgrounds,...
The Global War on Terrorism Memorial Foundation has been working for years to establish a permanent memorial to the USA’s longest war on the National...
(Herwig Kavallar) Thanks to Nick Devaux from St. Lucia for passing along this joke. Nick’s excellent The Log Book Project is one of the most important...
Written by Beth Reuschel Military records researcher Beth Reuschel wanted to find out what her grandfather did in World War II. She started searching the records....
Written by Todd DePastino The image above is the first known of Uncle Sam, symbol of the US federal government, published in the New York...
written by Marilyn Walton WWII Eighth Air Force historian and US POW expert, Marilyn Walton, sent us a response to her viewing of Masters of...
Thank you to Vietnam Veteran and Tin Can Sailor Carl Rectenwald for passing along this information. Under the Mission Act passed by Congress and signed...
Iwo Jima Landing in Color.mov from TanSideOut on Vimeo. Join author Steven McCloud for a ground-breaking look at the color film footage of the landings...
Written by Todd DePastino (Library of Congress) There is no federal holiday called Presidents’ Day. Officially, the Third Monday in February is known as “Washington’s...
Written by Terri Crisp Terri Crisp is an award-winning artist, author of three books, and, until recently, a world-traveling animal welfare protector. In 2007, Terri...
Written by Todd DePastino The large Chinese surveillance balloon first spotted last week above Montana and then shot down by military aircraft off the Carolina...
