Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

A battered diary from World War I was just found in a barn in England. It recounts the horrific Battle of the Somme, the ...

After Hitler’s invasion of Russia, and then following Pearl Harbour, the great alliance – which in the end would defeat the ...

In the Ukraine war, it is artillery that has enabled tactically clumsy Russian infantry and armor to advance. Stalin once called it the "god of war." ...

Yes, the U.S. has the larger consumer economy. No, that won’t be enough to avoid major (and majorly self-inflicted) pain.

That was - historian Andy Robertshaw insists - the experience of most soldiers in the First World War. It was not one of constant fighting, never-ending trench foot and heartless aggression from ...

The historic building that was built by First World War German prisoners of war was on the verge of being restored following years of neglect. Last week a government planning inspector ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

Elian Gonzalez returned to his Cuban father; Workers shout down Democrats, US union bureaucrats; Jordan annexes West Bank; ...

The National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force will host the new book launch of Robert M. Edsel, bestselling author of ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

The Act was hurriedly passed during the First World War. Washington’s goal in targeting ... s officials are rifling through dusty statute books looking for more long-overlooked laws that can ...