Assassinations, coups, and street brawls may be symptoms of democratic decay—or an intentional strategy wielded by ...

Even without knowing he’s written an entire book on the subject you know right off the bat that University of Texas Permian Basin Associate Professor of History Roland Spickermann is passionate about ...

It looked like a design mistake - but it wasn’t. The BV141 was Nazi Germany’s strangest aircraft, built with one side longer and heavier than the other. Yet somehow, this asymmetrical plane actually ...

Even after backlash, Trump again echoed his words at a campaign rally. At his campaign rally in Iowa this week, Donald Trump once again broke new ground, becoming the first leading presidential ...

Although they lost World War II, the Nazis were more technologically advanced than their Allied rivals in multiple ways. Berlin’s problem was scale—and trying to do too much with too few resources.

A museum spokesperson says "there are no changes to the editorial content." An exhibit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum that takes a critical look at the United States' response to Nazi ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 24, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Dr. Fager ran a world record mile of ...

Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke remarked how he "can only imagine the history books" that will be written about the people of 2025, and likened it to 1933 Germany on Wednesday. The Democrat appeared ...

Eight decades ago, one of the most formidable challenges for postwar Germany was what to do about the millions of Germans who remained die-hard loyalists of Adolf Hitler. With a third of Americans ...

Rachel Herring receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. Decisions made by German chancellor Friedrich Merz when he came to power in May indicate that a somewhat dormant regional ...

A German submarine torpedoed the S.S. Pennsylvania Sun on July 15, 1942, destroying 107,500 barrels of U.S. Navy fuel oil. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Early on June 29, 1942, the 8,032-ton ...

The Nazi scientists acknowledged that the project was beyond their conceivable reach for the sake of the war—speculating that it might be possible in 50 to 100 years. During the Second World War, as ...