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Armin E. Mruck, a Towson University history professor who survived World War II and devoted his career to connecting students ...

October 7th has been a date marked by transformative moments across history, spanning dramatic battles, groundbreaking discoveries, and notable cultural ...

Key Point: Despite ambitions of becoming a global colonial empire, Germany was still a Continental power in 1914. If it won the war, it would be through the immense power of its army, not its navy.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: None of these alternatives would have guaranteed victory, but they at least would have offered Germany a chance. Whether “victory” would have been worth the cost in ...

When it comes to Confederate monuments and reckoning with the past, America could learn a lot from Germany, says CNN’s Fareed Zakaria. Zakaria’s comments came a week after violence broke out in ...