November 1918 and the war to end all wars comes to its conclusion as the guns on the western front fall silent. For four years prior, the army of German Kaiser Wilhelm II had shot and shelled its way ...

At the beginning of 1918, amid World War I, Germany and Austria-Hungary were in dire need of natural resources. Ukraine, ...

Russian leader Vladimir Putin insists that Russia will not lose in Ukraine and that Russia has rarely lost a war. The reality is that Russia has been defeated 38 times in the past 1,100 years since ...

He demonstrated that fascism had its own intellectual roots and showed how ideas, theories and an antisemitic “ethos” ...

TODAY is the 85th anniversary of the first of a series of mass deportations from Poland’s eastern borderlands to Siberia.

They were a major force in building the Alaska Railroad, but like other minorities, often faced discrimination.

We humans have a habit of overestimating what we do know, underestimating what we don’t know, and, all too frequently, ignoring the difference. Consider long range planning. Pretend for a ...

Today in History for Feb. 27: ...

Theo Perkarna at Hotel Jordan has entertainment in the Baronet Room on Friday and Saturday – they have turtle soup at the coffee shop, Manager Maria Breimhorst said.

The city was founded by Andrzej Potocki, a representative of an influential Polish noble family, on the site of the ancient ...

Aftermath of World War I and the Rise of Nazism, 1918–1933 This 38-minute film examines the Nazis ... On September 1, 1939, a massive German force invaded and conquered Poland within a month. It was ...

Germany suffered a humiliating defeat in World War I (1914–1918). Many believed the Nazi Party was restoring ... did not meaningfully intervene to protest until Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Even ...