Today in History for Aug. 2: In 1100, King William II of England was killed in a hunting accident.

In the summer of 1991, Betsy Jochum traveled five hours from her home in South Bend, Ind., to Bosse Field, a small, ...

Leo XIV's appeals for peace, especially in the Holy Land, have mostly been boilerplate and lacking in passion. If he wishes, ...

As John Hirst put it in a brilliant, recently republished Black Inc essay on Curtin’s wartime prime ministership that set the ...

India has confirmed it has successfully tested two nuclear-capable missiles just months after trading airstrikes with rival ...

In the 1970s, Amin enlisted Black Ugandans to battle against racial minorities who were said to dominate the economy and public life. Today an ascendant right wing encourages aggrieved white Americans ...

Cary Cox and Holt Rast were teammates at Alabama in the late 1930s, and later served with distinction in the U.S. Army during ...

It didn’t make international headlines, but yesterday, the capital of a nation whose people were devastated by genocide ...

Jack Thompson, born John Hadley Pain on August 31, 1940, in Manly, New South Wales, Australia, is a renowned Australian actor and a pivotal figure in the Australian New Wave cinema movement. After ...

World War II veteran Thomas Roberts celebrated his 100th birthday with a special celebration at VFW Post 4588 in Bossier City ...

Abandoned villages and empty landscapes are not a problem specific to Eastern Europe. In an NZZ interview, demographics ...

As New York City celebrates the 400th anniversary of its founding, National Geographic looks back on more than a century of ...