Based on a poem sent to Joan Baez by Nina Duschek, “Saigon Bride” is emblematic of ’60s folk music and tells the story of a ...

By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening ...

As the world marks Yom HaShoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day , a sobering visualization by The World in Maps brings ...

Odd cartographic creations like ‘Fool’s Cap Map of the World,’ ‘Leo Belgicus,’ and ‘The Porcineograph’ make the classic ...

The Elbe Day picture captured American and Russian armies uniting against the Nazis — and cemented two Jewish soldiers in ...

the strait dividing Gallipoli from mainland Turkey—the opening of a campaign that would be regarded as one of the great Allied failures of World War I. The name quickly became a metaphor for ...

Cardinals will meet next month to pick Francis' successor, deciding if the new pope should continue with the late pontiff's ...

War, like love, has long inspired artists and musicians. That is especially true of the songs written in response to the ...

Poland’s libraries offer a unique glimpse into its rich history, beauty, and spirit of innovation. With the country holding ...

Edward Steichen, Philadelphia Museum of Art In the years before World ... the war itself. A swift German offensive in April 1917 left 120,000 French dead just 150 miles from Paris, and one village ...

Dr. Adam Seipp of Texas A&M University presented a talk titled "GIs, Germans, and the Ends of War: 1944-46" at the Audie ...

The pan-Germanic imperialism after the German unification in 1871 was primarily directed towards the East under the motto ...