As World War 2 was in its final stages and the Allied forces were approaching the heart of the Third Reich, dozens of German ...

Photos have a way of immortalizing history in its rawest form, capturing the feelings, hardships, and victories in ways words ...

In “The Wounded Generation” and “1942,” the historians David Nasaw and Peter Fritzsche show how civilians struggled with the ...

Although Albert Einstein is best-known as a theoretical physicist, he also spent much of his life grappling with the problem ...

Navy divers on Monday began a five-day operation to defuse the largest unexploded World War Two bomb ever found in Poland, forcing more than 750 people to evacuate their homes.

Beatified Sept. 6 in Veszprém, Hungary, the young factory worker gave her life resisting a Soviet soldier’s assault in 1945.

Oct. 7 sparked the most violent war between Israel and Hamas in history and dealt a huge blow to the status quo in the Middle East.

He’s hardly the first to connect the dots between Orwell’s prophetic writings and the current state of things — remember, sales for Nineteen Eighty-Four soared in the months following Donald Trump’s ...

Filmmaker Raoul Peck uses George Orwell’s writings to weave together a biographical portrait of the author and a dispiriting picture of power and truth in the modern world in “Orwell: ...

Filmmaker Raoul Peck uses George Orwell’s writings to weave together a biographical portrait of the author and a dispiriting ...

Authorities in Munich say a bomb threat has shut down Germany's famed Oktoberfest after an explosion and deadly fire in a ...

In the history of art, few works have exerted such a dark and universal magnetism as Isle of the Dead by the Swiss painter Arnold Böcklin, a true cultural phenomenon that transcended museums to embed ...