The debate over how to remember Ukraine's World War II history, as well as its implications for Ukrainian nationalism and independence, are key to understanding the current conflict.

An introductory survey of world history in the twentieth century, with a particular emphasis on the collapse of the Western colonial empires, the development of relations between the West and the new ...

This Is How Europe Came to Dominate the World by the 20th Century. 6 minute read. Louis XIV at the Taking of Besancon, 1674. ... (Princeton Economic History of the Western World, 2015).

What We Can Learn From the 20th Century’s Deadliest Pandemic In 1918, the Spanish flu killed more than 50 million people around the world. The lessons of that outbreak could save countless lives ...

Re “Henry A. Kissinger, 1923-2023: Refugee From Nazis, He Shaped World History” (obituary, front page, Dec. 1): Henry Kissinger was one of the most powerful political figures in the world from ...

If the 20th century teaches anything, ... Benedict and Karl, had held sway instead of the warmongers, world history in the past century would have been very different and much less barbaric.

Between the hot war in Europe and a brewing cold one between America and China, today’s world has a very 20th-century feel. Amid these echoes, historians and international-relations buffs have ...

Becoming Modern: Early 20th-Century Japan through Primary Sources offers secondary teachers seven lessons that examine a critical period in Japanese and world history: the period of Japan’s ...

A new book of world history has a playlist to go along with it Historian Simon Sebag ... whose identity is revealed and who plays a role in many of the most terrible atrocities of the 20th century.