A new search engine that allows users to search Nazi party records in order to find out whether their ancestors were ...

Ben Ferencz was just 27 with no previous trial experience when he became chief prosecutor in one of the most significant ...

April 12, 1945: Roosevelt dies and Truman takes command mid-war, reshaping World War II strategy and the postwar world order.

Because unlike most prior American wars, Trump has never targeted dual-use infrastructure — not in bombing ISIS, not in ...

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Stacker created a ranked list of baby names that lost the most popularity in each of the past 100 years. Consulting the ...

Lucas: If President Donald Trump is serious about pulling out of NATO, he would begin first by pulling U.S. troops out of ...

The sinking of two Mexican oil tankers by German U-boats in 1942 convinced Mexican officials they were at war with the Axis ...

It's not just President Donald Trump's policies. Republicans who claim that he is right about everything will have to answer ...

Historian Ian Buruma chronicles the lives of ordinary Berliners — including his own father — during World War II. Stay Alive is about the past, but has powerful lessons for the present.

“I give you my solemn warning that under the present trend, the next world war is inevitable,” declared the French military leader Ferdinand Foch. It was 1921, and Foch, the commander in chief of the ...

During World War II, Iowa housed over 25,000 German prisoners of war to address farm labor shortages. Initial fear and skepticism from Iowans gave way to community and trust as they worked alongside ...