The painting that introduced the movie “Star Wars” to the world nearly 50 years ago sold at auction for $3.875 million ...

With Europe worried over the threat from Russia, Germany is feeling pressure to lead the way on European defense. Whether ...

Last week, a US national security strategy document signed by the president said European governments “hold unrealistic ...

Eighty-four long years ago this Sunday, the world was forever changed. On that “day of infamy,” as revered former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt so boldly declared it, Japan launched a massive ...

It was an imperialist act because it divided part of European territory between two countries. From 1939 to 1941, the Soviet Union was an ally of Germany on the Eastern Front, supplying it with the ...

Tom Stoppard, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of 'Shakespeare in Love' and 5x Tony-winning playwright, has died. He was 88.

The Academy has unveiled its full list of eligible films for the 98th Oscars’ animated, documentary and international feature ...

In the winter of 1944, as some of the bloodiest fighting in World War II ramped up in Europe, 19-year-old then-1st Sgt. Jefferson Wiggins, along with hundreds of other Black soldiers, were tasked with ...

Brendan Riley’s Solano Chronicles column appears every other Sunday in the print edition of the Vallejo Times-Herald. In mid-1941 the U.S. was five months away from entry into World War II. But a ...

In “The Wounded Generation” and “1942,” the historians David Nasaw and Peter Fritzsche show how civilians struggled with the long tail of the war. By Elizabeth D. Samet Elizabeth D. Samet is the ...

Dive into the lesser-known Battle of Bautzen in "Germany's Last Victory: Against All Odds | World War II." Witness the strategic brilliance and resilience of German forces facing overwhelming odds on ...