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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Pablo Picasso is one of the most influential painters and sculptors of the 20th century, known for his artistic versatility and extraordinary talent. Picasso, who lived to 91, was famous for ...

LA boasts the world's most important legacy of 20th century architecture. There is the Japanese influence of the Austrian Rudolph Schindler in the 1920s house that bears his name in West Hollywood.

In the 21st century, everyone with a smartphone is a photographer. Images captured through the camera lens are no longer recognized as a rare window to the exotic scenery of a faraway land.

Leon Trotsky at his desk in Prinkipo “An Island at the Center of World History: Trotsky on Prinkipo,” will be livestreamed from Turkey on Trotsky.com at 5:00 pm local time, 2:00 pm GMT, 10:00 ...

Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (1913) Russian composer Igor Stravinsky’s crowning masterpiece was penned in the 20th century. The Rite of Spring is a ballet composed by Stravinsky for Sergei’s ...

This collection examines the history of conscription in Australia, ... but Jim Brill's experience was felt by ANZAC soldiers throughout the 20th century. Unlike World War One, ...