In October 1940, as Americans prepared to select a president, World War II was raging - German troops occupied Paris - but without U.S. participation. American voters had, however, a ...

No one should be put off reading Patrick Cockburn’s remarkable biography of his father by its misleading subtitle. ‘Guerrilla ...

His greatest moment, however, came a year later, in a politically charged environment. Owens travelled to Berlin to take part in the 1936 Olympics – an event overseen by Adolf Hitler, which the new ...

Renowned Chilean author Antonio Skármeta, celebrated for 'The Postman', dies at 83. His works captured Latin American spirit, ...

Professor Buerkle has held the Walter Benjamin Chair in German Jewish History and Culture at the Humboldt University-Berlin and from 2014 to January 2016 she was director ... The Force of Elsewhere: ...

We certainly felt that way years ago after talking to University of Chicago scholar James Robinson, and it turns out…the ...

On October 16, 1937 the Short Sunderland, a remarkable British flying boat, sailed through the water and the sky, leaving ...