In a time when the chaos of news-by-the-minute assaults the senses of those who yearn for perspective and analysis, it can be instructive to look back to April 1945, a month that gave the world 30 ...

Hitler himself said that in occupying Czechoslovakia ... to protect them from Chinese “bandits” (i.e., those resisting Japan’s invasion). Emperor Hirohito, in his 1945 surrender address, insisted that ...

Journalists accurately reported that the führer was a “Little Man” whom the whole world was laughing at. It didn’t matter.

My grandfather was a Nazi. The U.S. may have absolved him as a fellow traveler, but I'm still left to wrestle with ...

Taika Waititi’s anti-hate satire Jojo Rabbit takes on Nazis and an imaginary Adolf Hitler with plenty of laughs and a lot of heart.

What do you notice about the mass of biological (living) forms and mass of technological (man-made) forms on Earth? What do you wonder? By The Learning Network A teenager and a New York Times ...

Newly published 'Two Sisters' is a family memoir that goes back and forth in time to examine motivations for resistance and ...

A: At noon on Aug. 15, days after the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and Nagasaki on Aug. 9, Japanese Emperor Hirohito broadcast a surrender message to his people on the radio.

An unfamiliar voice crackles from Japanese radios. For the first time ever, Emperor Hirohito is addressing his people. He speaks in classical Japanese, making it difficult for some citizens to ...

Porky ventures into Darkest Africa in search of the last Do-Do bird, and winds up in Wackyland, a surreal place where the sun comes up atop a human pyramid, the Warner Brothers shield comes zooming ...