Historians and observers have accused the Trump administration trying to rewrite American history to justify its own foreign ...

William Faulkner famously wrote, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." That could describe some of the recent historical discourse on the presidential campaign trail. First came Republican ...

President Donald Trump recently hinted that he may revert the Department of Defense back to the Department of War, an old title dating back to 1789. “It used to be called the Department of War and it ...

But this is only one part of Putin’s narrative. The Great Patriotic War, Russia’s term for the Soviet Union’s war against the Nazis from 1941 to 1945, lies at the center of Russian memory politics and ...

World War II is one of the most significant events in human history. It claimed the lives of millions, devastated the economies of multiple countries, and forever changed life as we knew it. Its ...

As a historian working in professional military education, I find myself in the awkward position of warning strategists and students alike against drawing too many lessons from history. As quick ...

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 138. From the earliest days of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR had nuclear weapons, but only one means of delivering a strike – ...

On Feb. 2, 1943, the last remnants of Germany’s 6th Army surrendered in the frozen ruins of Stalingrad. The fighting had lasted more than 200 days and cost an estimated 2 million casualties. It marked ...

As Russian forces have withdrawn from areas near Kyiv in recent days, photographs from those areas have shocked a world that was already aghast at the invasion of Ukraine. Images emerged of hundreds ...