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.