Howell Raines, a former executive editor of the New York Times, is the author of “Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta — and Then Got Written Out of History.” A ...

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William Faulkner famously wrote, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” That could describe some of the recent historical discourse on the presidential campaign trail. First came Republican ...

Women walk by a memorial wall for the fallen defenders of Ukraine in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 7. (Daniel Cole/AP) Timothy Snyder is the Levin professor of history at Yale University and the ...

“History repeats itself,” said maritime consultant Frank Coles, ex-CEO of Wallem Group, who sailed in Tanker War convoys. “Anyone who remembers the Iran-Iraq war knows escorts were needed then.

KYIV, Ukraine — Here's a widely held view of Russia's war: Russia had a more powerful army and expected a quick victory. It didn't think Western powers would intervene. Yet a poorly planned military ...

On the evening of February 21, 2022, three days before Russian forces began the largest land invasion on the European continent since World War II, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an angry ...

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A scholar of totalitarianism argues that new laws restricting the discussion of race in American schools have dire precedents in Europe. An anti-integration demonstration at a Montgomery, Ala., high ...