The founding of a research institute 100 years ago has helped to provide insight on Yiddish culture in the United States and ...

Over a million tons of unexploded ordnance (UXO) dating back to World Wars I and II rest beneath the surface. From sea mines ...

But Bryan had a better reason to remember than most: on that September 3, 1939, he was stopped at what was then the Romanian-Polish border on a train bound for Warsaw. “Why, at this moment ...

While World War II progressively diminishes in importance for many in the United States, the Great Patriotic War, in Russian ...

While World War II (WWII) progressively diminishes in importance for many in the United States, the Great Patriotic War, in ...

It was a combination of many conflicts, including ethnic and national hatreds that followed the collapse of four empires and the redrawing of borders at the Paris Peace Conference after World War I. A ...

V-E Day, on May 8, 1945, marked the end of World War II in Europe. But we're still learning that conflict's deepest lessons.

Eighty years later, people shared their views on the war’s end — and the chances of a new one.

The V-E Day commemorations this year in Britain, France, Canada and other U.S. allies mark 80 years since the formal end of World War II in Europe after Germany’s surrender. Mr. Trump’s claim ...

Belarus’s events marking 80 years since the defeat of Nazi Germany were a show of state power—but also reflected real popular ...

Thursday is the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. As leaders of countries that suffered greatly during and after the war, we attach great importance to this date. We remember ...

On a quiet stretch of eastern Polish countryside in early September 1939, a battle unfolded that would be immortalized for ...