As part of its Women’s History Month coverage, The National Interest is publishing a multi-part series honoring some of ...

A peace settlement to end a major war can be an opportunity to reorder the world. After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in ...

Keith Lowe vividly recounts the Italian city under Allied occupation.

Clay Risen examines Cold War hysteria in an even-handed way, trusting readers to make the connection between McCarthyism and ...

Author William Geroux finds a compelling true-crime angle in a series of camp murders, as well as international intrigue in a ...

Genealogists volunteering for the Looted Books Project recently returned a volume to a 103-year-old Holocaust survivor in Florida who was given the book in 1930 as a gift for her good performance in ...

The books on our list are some of the best for kids and teens about this period. For more reading about the past, check out our lists of World War II Books for Kids and Historical Fiction.

In the architecture world, it's all about the re-appreciation of brutalism. The revival has been relatively swift—the verdict ...

Many people might remember it as the Mead Ordnance Plant, but no matter what people called the Nebraska Ordnance Plant, it certainly played a big role in World War II.

When German novelist Erich Maria Remarque wrote All Quiet on the Western Front in 1929, it was as if the world had been ...

These two books describe how American doctors were linked to troubling events during World War II that raised thorny moral issues around medicine and war.

In honor of Women’s History Month, we spoke with seven creators of picture book biographies highlighting overlooked female figures in history.