For Silt locals Lucas and Ethan Villarreal, history isn’t just read — it’s lived. The two brothers with a passion for the past are breathing life into the stories of World War II through the immersive ...

NOVO SELO TRAINING AREA, BULGARIA (April 23, 2023) – On 23 April, U.S. Army Soldiers from the Army Support Activity-Black Sea (ASA-Black Sea) stationed at Novo Selo Training Area (NSTA), along with ...

A World War II Pacific Theater reenactment will occur the weekend of July 12-13 at the American Heritage Museum in Hudson. The event will feature American and Japanese infantry camps, authentic gear ...

If WWII reenactors fire blanks, how do they know when they’ve been hit? The short answer is: they don’t—at least not the way you’d expect. In this video, I explain how reenactment combat really works, ...

D-Day Conneaut bills itself as the nations largest WWII reenactment and the world's biggest D-Day reenactment. Every August on a small Lake Erie beach in the far Northeastern Ohio city of Conneaut, an ...

Visitors were able to step back in time to Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944. This battle was pivotal in World War II. People could see different American and German ...

The guests of honor at this weekend’s Rails to Victory World War II reenactment and encampment in South Elgin are two men who experienced the war firsthand more than 80 years ago. Duane Stevenson, 100 ...

A week into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, news outlets worldwide have published footage of refugees fleeing the tide of war. The number of Ukrainian refugees exceeded 1.2 million as of March 3, ...

Step into the chaos and intensity of a WWII woodland battle reenactment, where every shot, maneuver, and moment is recreated with incredible detail. Filmed from the sidelines for a full view of the ...

The American Heritage Museum features dozens of tanks for visitors to look at — from a distance. Like almost all museums, barriers prevent the public from getting too close to the exhibits. That’s not ...

Someone has to play the bad guy. Someone has to play the Nazi. Otherwise, how do you teach history? I heard this a lot. Whenever I would ask anyone portraying a German soldier at Rockford, Illinois’ ...

Someone has to play the bad guy. Someone has to play the Nazi. “It’s a costume, man,” one guy in an SS uniform told me. They were also here as educators, as amateur historians. They also played Nazis ...