NPR's Joe Henandez spoke to veteran Harry Miller on his memories of the day Nazi Germany surrendered in World War II.

Europe is marking one of its most joyous days in history. V-E Day is also haunted by the specter of current-day conflict.

At 3pm eighty years ago on May 8, 1945, then Prime Minister Winston Churchill took to the airwaves to announce that Nazi ...

"History is the life of nations and of humanity," In War and Peace, the great writer Leo Tolstoy observed. This year marks ...

VE Day is not only a chance for us to remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom, but also serves as a ...

Op-ed In early May, President Donald Trump declared that he would designate a special day this month to commemorate Victory in Europe Day (VE Day), instilling a sense of national pride in Americans ev ...

Here's why President Trump is pushing to rename Veterans Day, a federal holiday recognized each year on Nov. 11.

Even if the end of World War II in Europe spawned one of the most joyous days the continent ever lived, Thursday’s 80th ...

For Peter Belcher, May 8, 1945 lives in his memory as the day he and his fellow soldiers witnessed for the first time the ...

Without the Norwegian sailors who risked their lives in the war, the Allied front might have collapsed and thousands could ...

In 2010 at Quail Hollow, Rory McIlroy put the golf world on notice with a spectacular Sunday 62 to win his first PGA Tour ...

Hundreds of people have gathered for a parade as part of the 80th anniversary of VE day in Warwickshire. About 150 soldiers ...