NEW ORLEANS (September 3, 2009) – Seventy years ago, on Sept. 3, 1939, Great Britain and France, responding to the Nazi invasion of Polan...

On August 14, 1945 the world learned that Japan had surrendered, effectively ending World War II, a war that Americans thought would go on indefinitely. No newsflash in modern history has ever been greeted with such overwhelming celebration. The iconic images of happy throngs holding up the newspapers that would go into countless scrapbooks and frames, the impromptu parades, hands in the air forming a “V” for victory, and the iconic images from Times-Square – including one very famous kiss between a nurse and a sailor.

Hazel Ah Ying Lee was the first Chinese American woman to join the WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) during World War II.

From rural Mississippi to Iwo Jima, Joseph LaNier confronted racism in society and service.

In Izieu, France, Gestapo official Klaus Barbie crossed a final threshold of criminality.