It is customary to start the year with predictions of what will happen in the 12 months ahead. From the implications of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump returning to the White House, to the ...

Teaching World War II effectively means resisting the temptation to begin with explosions, battles, and December 7, 1941. For ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American Jews each day. Eighty years on, few people ...

At the beginning of “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting," the great Czech author Milan Kundera tells the story of a cold, snowy day in Czechoslovakia in 1948 at the height of Communist rule. A man ...

Since Veterans Day, I was once again looking through photos that my dad took while overseas during World War II. He was in a self-propelled AAA Automatic Weapons battalion and was their radioman, who ...

Thursday is the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. As leaders of countries that suffered greatly during and after the war, we attach great importance to this date. We remember our ...

Reenactors in olive-colored uniforms ran and ducked over snow-covered ground, weapons-bearing military vehicles rolled along roads and the sounds of 1940s firearms boomed through the air on Feb. 23 at ...