Germany’s colonial empire, which lasted from 1884 to 1919 shaped global inequalities. German colonies saw forced labor, ...

The Nazis targeted black people living in Germany, excluding them from society through forced sterilisation and denial of ...

The German Empire in Africa in the 1880s brought Germany into contact with Africans, their labor and their territories' resources. The colonies included Cameroon, Togo, German East Africa ...

The fact that troops from the Soviet Union captured Berlin on May 2, 1945, and planted the Soviet flag on the roof of the ...

Terry W. Hamby, chairman of the WWI Centennial Commission, dedicated a memorial to World War I, intoning: “The doughboys we ...

There were the self-described British, French (until 1940 anyway), German and Japanese empires ... but was the heir to the multinational Czarist empire and brutally suppressed any aspirations ...

May 10 and 11 hold a significant place in history, marked by events that have shaped nations, influenced cultures, and ...

The American semiquincentennial begins now, marking the 250th anniversary of this country’s founding. Like the bicentennial five decades ago, it’s an opportunity for both celebration and reflection on ...

Britain desperately needed help and Roosevelt wanted to offer it, but the US was isolationist and anti-colonial so it came at ...

The Second World War was not just won on the battlefield, but in seemingly marginal regions from Ireland to Iraq.