While 1991 is often given as the end of the Cold War, the truth is that the Cold War never ended; it just paused before ...

In 1945, a young American officer was killed in China—his death seen as the opening shot of the Cold War. His story reveals ...

The academic debate over the history of the Asia-Pacific War and Japan’s colonial era has been largely resolved. So why does ...

Minh-Thu Pham of Project Starling, a group that supports multilateral co-operation, says the danger is less that the UN goes ...

Commissioned in August 1943, the Essex-class carrier USS Intrepid fought across the Pacific, surviving a torpedo at Truk and multiple kamikaze strikes while launching raids from the Marshalls to ...

Our first in-house map was produced during World War I. By the Second World War, the White House was asking for them by name.

Across land, sea, and sky, the biggest war machines ever built were feats of engineering; statements of power. From ...

At 96, Bob Fleak zipped up his old Army flight suit and climbed into a World War II-era biplane, eager to return to the skies ...

Sixty-two Central Texas military veterans who served in combat during the Vietnam War boarded a plane to fly to our nation’s capital to honor them for their service.

As the United Nations celebrates its 80th anniversary, the organization faces exceptional challenges — from climate change ...

You can still get a secondhand Minox subminiature camera. Finding someone to process the film might be more difficult.

Based on interviews with Austrian-British journalist Gitta Sereny, The Land of the Living plunges us into the turbulent, shattered aftermath of the second world war. But as we watch it, we can’t help ...