African American athlete Jesse Owens rose to international stardom after winning four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. History Channel’s new documentary “Triumph: Jesse ...

Germany has spent decades reckoning with its Nazi history and the Holocaust. But in recent years, far-right extremism and violent plots, especially against Jews, Muslims and immigrants, have been on ...

"This anthology of documents is ... resulting from the work of the Chicago Project on the social history of German workers from 1850 to 1910"-- Pref.

The opening line of L.P. Hartley's seminal coming-of-age novel The Go-Between reads, "The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there." That sentiment resonates throughout writer and ...