20st Century up to 1945

Executive editor: Ingo Loose; English-language edition prepared by: Elizabeth Harvey, Russell Alt-Haaker, Johannes Gamm, Georg Felix Harsch, Dorothy Mas, and Caroline Pearce By 1941, most of the Jews …

From its inception, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) provoked controversy. Today it is widely regarded as having contributed to the end of the Cold War. Bringing together n …

Roy Whain did what hundreds of others have done, following in the hoofprints of his father and grandfather when he joined the Cavalry of the United States Army. But his service in the Great War would …

On June 6, 1944, the largest military operation in history got underway in northern France as more than 150, 000 Allied troops began the invasion of German-occupied Western Europe. D-Day: The Story o …

A story told by diaries, of a young woman’s recruitment into military intelligence from a jail cell. Involved as a child in the CIA’s MK-Ultra projects, her assignment was to become involved with a n …

Over the last century, the industrialization of agriculture and processing technologies have made food abundant and relatively inexpensive for much of the world’s population. Simultaneously, pesticid …

Countless studies have assessed the dramatic reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, but their analysis of the impact on European communism has focused overwhelmingly on the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc natio …

In 2020, the Vatican opened its archives for the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958), the pope that led the Catholic Church during WWII, the Holocaust, and the beginning of the Cold War. The Global P …

On 1st September 1939, Poland was invaded from the west, north and south by the Nazis. Three weeks later the Soviet Red Army moved in and occupied the remainder of the country. Twenty three year old …

The concept of Manifest Destiny has been highly misinterpreted. Such items as the Cherokee Trail of Tears, the US as the hemisphere policeman, exploitation of Pacific Island Nations, and the list goe …