In “Shots Heard Round the World,” John Ferling argues that substantial – and secret – aid from France helped the colonists ...

The showdown between the Trump administration and Harvard University is spotlighting bare-knuckled politics and big dollar ...

A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Greg Grandin offers a fresh account of the region as an incubator of ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, who has died at the age of 89 in his native Peru, was a towering figure in Latin American literature and ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

The aerial strike comes as Russia intensifies its ground operations. LONDON -- Ukraine has accused Russia of committing a war crime after a Russian drone struck a military hospital in Kharkiv ...

Instead, we get to witness some of the realities of war early on. For starters, the film depicts the harsh fact that American troops too often mistreated our local partners. In one scene ...

The American Civil War is no exception, since there was no convenient peace treaty to lend it a conventional closing date. And how could there have been, since the Lincoln administration ...

The European Union has reportedly warned the bloc's 450 million people to prepare for a World War-like situation The European Union has reportedly warned the bloc's 450 million people to prepare ...

RYLSK, Russia - In the Russian region of Kursk, where Ukraine has been fighting for more than seven months, people say they want peace but fear there will be more war. Ukraine's incursion into ...

WARSAW — Since Poland unveiled its goal to train every adult male for war, being a Polish passport-holder has taken on a different character. Hollywood A-lister status is no exception. “There’s really ...

The story goes that the OPEC oil crisis, brought on by the US supporting Israel during the Yom Kippur War of 1973, along with the deindustrialisation of the American Midwest, ground down the US ...