Fifty years ago, Leonid Brezhnev, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, achieved a long-desired ...

The End of the War in Eight Surrenders” by James Holland and Al Murray, explores the complex end of World War II. While many ...

Places left behind are often weirdly magnetic with crumbling walls, creeping vines, and silence where life once thrived.

Fifty years ago, leaders from 35 countries – including rivals from both sides of the Iron Curtain – gathered in the Finnish ...

Science in ancient Egypt and Greece followed a similar pattern: It thrived during good times and fell off in periods of ...

There are a lot of ways that filmmakers and storytellers have reworked real history with an alternate version of that history ...

The inheritors of the thrash throne have undoubtedly been the Germans. Teutonic thrash, as it’s often called, lagged behind ...

Hamburg built more bunkers during World War II than any other city in Germany. Tour guides share the many stories of each one, with some of them rebuilt as cafes and bars while others serve as hotels.

What should have been a happy occasion for some of the biggest names in Australian sport left many of them 'furious' in ...

Eighty years ago today a great international conference was happening that indelibly shaped the world to come. Let’s take a ...

The Space Race is history. Now, the US is racing China over AI, laying out its strategy in a combative new action plan.