Just before the liberation of Florence in August 1944, a small unit of German soldiers broke into a villa not far from Florence intending to arrest Robert Einstein (cousin of Albert) who lived there ...

Trump's first 100 days in office parallel Hitler's in some important ways — but there are still major differences.

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It's never too early for kids to fall in love with books. And finding stories that are captivating to look at and fun to hear when read aloud is half the battle. Here's a list of engaging toddler ...

When our waking thoughts get transmuted into dreams, what do we learn?

The Hungarian capital’s Jewish community hoped the worst Nazi persecutions would bypass them. The terror still came.

A newly reissued book documents the dreams of Germans living under the Nazis, charting totalitarianism’s power over the ...

Among 381 books that have been removed from the library at the U.S. Naval Academy is Maya Angelou’s best-seller, “I Know Why ...

For that, remarkably, is Mailer's "poetic truth": that Hitler was born evil, conceived in the presence of the Devil and in the dark stew of a family history of incest, much as the baby Jesus, ...