The mass evacuations of British children, intended to keep them safe from German air raids, did not spare them from the traumas of war.
Burgundian knight Sir Peter von Hagenbach led a campaign of terror on innocent civilians that ended in a precedent-setting judgment.
These letters from Black Americans to the people who once controlled their lives show a desire for freedom and a desperate longing to be reunited with their families.
The Soviet dictator covered up the starvation across the republic in the early 1930s.
Police in Cobb County, Ga., are planning to destroy a live Civil War artillery round found at Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park. Some experts and collectors say that's unnecessary.
The Washington Post has compiled the first database of slaveholding members of Congress by examining thousands of pages of census records and historical documents.
We’re looking for documents to conclude whether certain members of Congress were or were not slaveholders.
The ship, experts said, is looking surprisingly good despite it all.
Chernobyl was the site of the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident on April 26, 1986, when a meltdown sent a huge radioactive cloud over parts of Europe.
Huge crowds braved long lines in Moscow for a taste of the mysterious “Beeg Mak” in 1990.
