The construction of a democratic order in Japan during the American occupation was one of the more significant outcomes of the conflict.

There is insufficient attention paid to the long history of the Roma within European culture.

George Washington Biggs devoted most of his adult life to causes greater than himself.

In late September 1940, the German-Jewish intellectual, Walter Benjamin, embarked on a dangerous and ultimately ill-fated journey across the Pyrenees to escape the Nazis.

In 1945 the American intellectual, Norman Cousins, was one of the first to raise terrifying questions for humanity about the successful splitting of the atom.

The Soviets inflicted terrible brutality on their Japanese captives.

The Red Army's liberation of Majdanek in July 1944 was one of the most significant moments in the history of World War II and the Holocaust.

The Nazi dictatorship policed, prosecuted, and ultimately murdered thousands of gay men during its 12 years of rule.

Renowned historian Carlo Ginzburg’s life and scholarship are deeply connected to and profoundly shaped by the history of antifascism in Italy and World War II.

World War II shaped the kind of person, musician, and composer Dave Brubeck became.