100 years ago, the United States enters World War I
After nearly three years of horrific, industrialized war raged across Europe and repeated German effrontery, the United States dropped its neutral stance and joined the fight in April 1917.
Pearl Harbor was the only WWII attack on the U.S., right? Wrong.
U-boats stalked the coast. Balloon bombs were set off to start wildfires. These assaults on the U.S. mainland caused destruction and panic—when they weren’t covered up.
How the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has been shaped by history
A fateful decision by Stalin, and divisions drawn by the Soviet Union, still reverberate in a historic conflict that has recently re-erupted on the battlefields of the Caucasus.