Time-Life founder and publisher Henry Luce famously asked that question in editorial written on the brink of World War II.

In the winter of 1941–42, the Red Army launched a massive counteroffensive that shattered German lines near Moscow. For weeks ...

In May 1941, Nazi Germany launched its first major airborne invasion, targeting the strategic island of Crete. As thousands ...

The museum says a Jewish art dealer received a fair price for the work in 1941. The heirs say sales from that time are considered to have been forced and void under French law.

Seth Wickersham, author of "American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback," helps us understand why quarterbacks are among ...

The invocation of 'shared historical trauma' echoed through Dodik’s remarks; trauma rooted in the genocidal horrors of the ...

As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...

The late author preserved a story that too few Americans know at a time fear and racism overwhelmed the nation.

Historian and Ph.D. research fellow Andreas Eliassen Grini at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has delved into German soldiers' descriptions of their experiences in Northern ...

The CPM-K proudly proclaims its unrestrained backing for the monstrous crimes of Stalinism that destroyed the Bolshevik Party, annihilated workers’ democracy, liquidated revolutionary Marxism through ...

Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on Friday, Jan. 31, 1919. He was born in Cairo, Georgia, where his family sharecropped. The ...