The Battle of Torgau was a pivotal conflict between two of the most powerful European states of the time - the Kingdom of Prussia and the Habsburg Empire. The army of King Frederick the Great of ...

Two-spirit enrolled member of the Edisto Natchez-Kusso Tribe of South Carolina discusses his novel “If the Dead Belong Here” ...

Professor Hathaway teaches law and political science at Yale and is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the president-elect of the American Society of ...

On Christmas Eve 1914, in the dank, muddy trenches on the Western Front of the first world war, a remarkable thing happened. It came to be called the Christmas Truce. And it remains one of the most ...

Witness to ICE agents: 'you shot her in the f**king face'; says: 'I can't let this narrative of self-defense go any further' ...

Evan Michael Woods If it weren’t taught in history class, the impromptu ceasefire during which 100,000 British and German troops laid down their weapons and left their trenches to celebrate Christmas ...

A production of the holiday-themed musical All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914, would probably be effective in any setting. But there’s something special about seeing—and hearing—this piece ...

FARGO — Paul Hedren grew up in a part of Minnesota where the Dakota War of 1862 was ignited when starving Dakota renegades raided the Lower Sioux Agency and white settlements along the Minnesota River ...

When peace broke out after World War I, America rejoiced. Maryland was no exception. The armistice declared Nov. 11, 1918, triggered jubilation throughout the state, the likes of which no one had ever ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. – The Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech is currently hosting a one-of-a-kind show called “The Great War.” The Dutch Company Hotel Modern blends theater, visual arts, animation, film ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...

Hollywood studios did not want Charlie Chaplin to make The Great Dictator. When he first started writing the script in 1938, the U.S. had not yet entered World War II. In fact, it still enjoyed ...