Braunschweig is also referred to as the unofficial birthplace of German football—and for a simple reason. Exactly 151 years ...

In the years leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan sought to expand into China, facing opposition from the League of Nations and the United States. The U.S. imposed trade embargoes to limit ...

There is a continent on Earth that has no permanent human residents. It is one of the most peaceful places on Earth, as the continent is entirely dedicated to science, thus regularly homing a rotating ...

The vehicles we know today as tanks emerged on a grand scale at the beginning of the 20th century, right before the First World War. In 1900, Britain commissioned steam-engine manufacturer John Fowler ...

Since 2015, hundreds of thousands of people have come to Germany seeking refuge. The data on asylum, integration and sentiment shows what the country has achieved since then — and what it hasn't. "We ...

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 ...

A group of POWs staged a sit-down strike at local processing plants. One POW, Heinz Golze, escaped from camps five times. Young women working alongside POWs were said to be "very familiar" with them.

Azerbaijan’s relationship with wine is a resilient love affair marked with cruel and often surprising twists and turns. We visit the city of Göygöl, in the country’s northwestern foothills, where, in ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. In the final ...

A conversation with the German theorist about the history of Western philosophy and more. In 2019, Jürgen Habermas—perhaps Europe’s most well-known living philosopher—published his long-awaited Auch ...

The Big Ideas: What Is History? After moments of great upheaval, scars can last for generations. By Jenny Erpenbeck Jenny Erpenbeck is a writer. This personal reflection is part of a series called The ...