Eighty years ago today a great international conference was happening that indelibly shaped the world to come. Let’s take a ...

Science in ancient Egypt and Greece followed a similar pattern: It thrived during good times and fell off in periods of ...

As Tim Bouverie shows in his masterful new diplomatic history of the war, the prime minister was right, both in his assessment of Vichy and in his calculation that such ruthless action would convince ...

July 26 marks 80 years since the 1945 Potsdam Declaration, in which the United States, Britain and China called on Japan to ...

Eighty years ago, on July 17, 1945, the last of the Second World War’s “Big Three” conferences was convened at Potsdam, near Berlin, Germany, in the Cecilienhof Palace. The key issues discussed and ...

While they are impossible to measure, emotions such as liking or hatred, admiration or contempt—the quotidian stuff of human ...

Sitter Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 30 Jan 1882 - 12 Apr 1945 Joseph Stalin, 21 Dec 1879 - Mar 1953 Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, 30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965 Unidentified Men Credit Line Owner: ...

History abounds with the records of how past world leaders were perceived after they had left political power or after their death. Political leaders like Winston Churchill of Great Britain, Franklin ...

After losing in 1945 Winston Churchill continued to scrutinize world affairs and speak out against Soviet expansionism.

While not having heard until recently of the ‘Hiroshima Committee’, I have no doubt the members of this activist group are ...

Another mighty oak tree has fallen. The steadily diminishing cadre of Kenya’s post-independence Career Ambassadors continues ...