President Trump paid his respects at a Delaware military base where the remains of six U.S. service members were returned to ...

A Council on Foreign Relations symposium on the evolution of U.S. foreign policy since the end of World War II suggests two critical lessons for policymaking today.

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Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945 Ian Buruma Penguin Press, 400 pages, $35 World War II Berlin had its share of fanatical Nazis, ...

I. A Revealing Moment Not all great historical shifts are forged on battlefields. More often, history moves in the silence of documents and decisions than beneath the thunder of artillery. There are ...

Set in the dual timelines of 1664 and 1939 Paris, “Skylark” follows two main storylines: that of Alouette, whose father is in ...

Ian Buruma was drawn to wartime Berlin because his father, a Dutchman was pressed into factory work there from 1943 to 1945 ...

Traveling north on Coulterville Road between the Coulterville Baptist Church and Swafford Road, you reach Nelson Cemetery ...

Hedy Lamarr proved to the world that science and invention are not gendered fields. As the "Queen of Glamor," Lamarr was the inspiration for Disney 's Snow White and DC's Catwoman, and as the "Mother ...

As Ian Buruma shows in “Stay Alive,” his crisply told and uncomfortably relevant history of wartime Berlin, they feed off the ...

Presidents come and go from the White House every four years or eight years, but the Ficklin family — Woodson Ficklin, his wife, some of his brothers and sisters, and son Wrory Ficklin — was a ...