More than 120,000 Japanese Americans were held in two Arizona camps in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

When thousands of their fellow Californians were interned in the 1940s for being of Japanese descent, Jewish reactions were mixed.

The fate of democracy was fragile when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1940.

The courage of one small woman, who pitted her strength against the determination of a crazed gunman, probably saved President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt from injury or death.

Operation Hailstone, the two-day carrier assault launched 82 years ago this week, demolished Japan's largest overseas naval installation and sent more than 40 ships beneath the waves.