The Bertram Mills Circus, founded by Bertram Wagstaff Mills of Chalfont St Giles, was world famous for half a century.

One of the strangest pieces of Cold War technology, ‘The Thing’ was a spy device ahead of its time. How did it work, and why ...

The shocking death of Czechoslovakia’s foreign minister – and son of its founding father -- just after the 1948 Communist ...

President Harry S. Truman’s “loyalty checks” began with an executive order declaring that “there shall be a loyalty ...

It may seem foreign today, but when I was a kid the CIA was respected by all, revered by many, feared by our enemies and was ...

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were put to death for spying for the Soviet Union. Decades later, we’re still grappling with what ...

During the Cold War, NATO searched for effective methods to prevent a potential Soviet invasion. One of the most ...

In the bleak and bitter winter of early 1947, the Nazi killing machine has been vanquished but Britain and America face the ...

Grabeel, one of America’s great unsung heroes, is buried in Pennington Gap, VA, next to her parents. “Aunt Gene” held a ...

The espionage genre always delivers something exciting for audiences to enjoy. Watching spies take on dangerous missions is ...

Behind a blue door in a narrow London passage lies a little-known network of tunnels deep underground, once home to British ...

The Library of Virginia is hosting a film screening of “Bridge of Spies,” a film about a Virginia pilot who was shot down ...