The fascist movements of 20th-century Europe had a sweeping impact around the world, in ways that still reverberate today.

As Catherine, Princess of Wales, becomes joint patron of the hospital where she received her chemotherapy treatment for cancer, she signals the importance that role could hold for her in the future.

Commemorations are being held Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet ...

Jan. 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Books, movies and other entertainment on World War II and the Holocaust oversimplify what really happened under Nazi rule, a Holocaust educator ...

This is the fourth part in a series of special history columns about World War II. Almost two months into the fighting of ...

We are exiting the era of hyperpolitics. All flames — even the hottest and most spectacular — eventually burn out. Perhaps ...

Carlisle, Pa., got its name from Carlisle, England. But at least five towns got their names from the Pennsylvania borough.

Social media critics sounded off Thursday night after a MAGA Republican announced his proposal to amend the Constitution to ...

In 1935, Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women, an “organization of organizations” to unify African American women’s organizations under one major umbrella. The Mary McLeod Bethune ...

Thirty years went by before distress about politics became a clinical issue for any of my clients. I remember the moment it first happened: There was a long voicemail from a distraught woman ...

When it comes to the arts in America, the second quarter of the 20th century is significant. That's not only because it was ...

Politics in America have become more upsetting than ever for big chunks of the population, but there are ways to cope.