The president, who has teased about the possibility of seeking a third term himself, seemed to rule that out with his ...

In the final days of World War II, hundreds of thousands of German soldiers and civilians fled west to surrender to American forces. This story follows General Walther Wenck, collapsing German armies, ...

Szyk (1894-1951) was born in Łódź and trained as an artist in Kraków and Paris, absorbing medieval illumination, caricature ...

I’d never heard of Eileen Gray or the house she built in the south of France. But suddenly I was obsessed.

The 45th was the only "green" division in the invasion with no combat experience. Its 180th Infantry Regiment struggled badly ...

My mother, grandmother, and grandfather arrived in New York on the S.S. Drottningholm in October 1939. Just about everyone ...

In 100 years of life, Dorothea Schade survived a Soviet gulag after World War II and immigrated to America for a better life.

In certain ways, last autumn in the United States recalled the autumn of 1938 in Nazi Germany, when mass deportation of ...

After five months – really two-and-a-half decades – of ever-escalating preparations by increasing diplomatic, economic, and ...

March 25: “Hurrah, and vote for suffrage! Don’t keep them in doubt.” —Febb Burn, a 47-year-old widow, in a letter to her son, ...

It’s time to stop equivocating and planning for stalemate. Ukraine can defeat Russia—and its victory would strengthen NATO ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday his country was “10 percent” away from a deal to end the war with ...