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Katharina Otto-Bernstein’s extensive documentary follows Sichel’s involvement in key moments of 20th-century history ...

The European Union has rarely played more than an auxiliary role in helping resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in ...

Approximately one-half of Americans alive today were born after the Cold War ended. Most of the rest, including baby boomers ...

This video explores how bureaucracy became the central force driving Germany’s rise, wars, and eventual democratic success.

The right kind of history : teaching the past in twentieth-century England by Cannadine, David, 1950-Publication date 2011 Topics History -- Study and teaching -- England, Education and state -- Great ...

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Robert Kaplan’s latest book on big geopolitical questions reflects a shift away from high-minded ideals in US establishment thought. But instead of self-critical pragmatism, what he offers as a ...

A new book charts how the discipline transcended humble origins and turned into something more ambitious, and more conflicted ...

Germany's newest bestseller is a 1930s novel that collected dust as an unpublished manuscript for almost a century before now ...