During World War II, U.S. Navy cruisers filled a vital niche between the powerful but slow battleships and the less powerful ...

The breakthrough west of St. Quentin, Aisne, France. Artillery drawn by horses advances through captured British positions on March 26, 1918. (National Archive/Official German Photograph of WWI) # 31 ...

In the early hours of December 13, 1939, the South Atlantic bore witness to one of World War II’s most dramatic naval ...

As rusting war-era ships decay on the seafloor, their toxic cargoes pose an urgent but often overlooked environmental risk.

In 1910 he went to Germany to work as a teacher to the children of performers in a so-called Völkerschau (an ethnic show; sometimes called a human zoo, where “primitive” cultures were displayed).

African prisoners in German camps were studied by ethnographers, who recorded their voices. What they had to say is poignant and unexpected.