This costly conflict spanned generations—and its brutal legacy endures. But why did the bloodshed go on for so long?

FIREWORKS NIGHT: Bonfire Night (or Fireworks Night or Guy Fawkes Night if you will) falls on 5 November, which is this Wednesday. There are a couple of midweek displays, but several bonfire events ...

Fifty years ago today, on November 3, 1975, Good Morning America debuted on ABC. In the years since, the show, now anchored ...

Lyudmila PavlichenkoTo read Julia Ioffe’s new book, “Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to ...

Nations are, as the Anglo-Irish historian Benedict Anderson put it, “imagined communities”; they only exist because we ...

Through newly recorded and archival interviews, artifacts and other materials, Indiana Historical Society has mounted a new exhibit, “Hoosier Voices from Vietnam.” Mark A. Kurtz, an award-winning ...

Is Shohei Ohtani the greatest of all time? He’s certainly the most talented, but what more does he have to do in the second half of his career to solidify his place among baseball’s ...

TORONTO -- ON A night when the Los Angeles Dodgers became the first team in 25 years to repeat as World Series champions, one ...

When British forces under Benedict Arnold sailed up the James River to invade Virginia, Thomas Jefferson, then Governor, hesitated and then fled. Years later he returned to power and became president.

In the summer of 1776, Thomas Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia to help define a new nation — even as his own life embodied ...

Bush-Gore election result in doubt; Morocco monarchy stages “Green March” into Spanish Sahara; Battle of Pakchon in Korean War; Failed plot to Benito Mussolini ...

On the morning of Oct. 10, 1983, in the rocky hills of Camp David, President Ronald Reagan was treated to an early screening of one of the year’s most anticipated films, “The Day After,” a two-hour ...