Entertainer Bob Hope brought comfort to generations of American troops on the Home Front and on battlefronts beginning in World War II.

In 1945, The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Station Chief Allen Dulles in Switzerland negotiated the early surrender of German forces in Italy and Austria days before the final surrender of Germany, saving many lives.

Frank Kameny saw combat in Europe during the war, only to return home to face discrimination from the very country he served.

For five days in 1943, a fashion fad was at the center of racial violence in Los Angeles.

Interpreters and translators were the unspoken heroes of the Nuremberg Trials. Their work at Nuremberg was a groundbreaking development in simultaneous interpretation.