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Extreme, dehumanizing language like the words used by President Trump to describe Baltimore can escalate into destructive outcomes, writes a scholar of hostage negotiation.
Old injustices don't simply disappear with time – they tear a nation apart.
Parenting: attachment is not, and has never been, the only way.
How engineers helped the Allies defeat Nazi Germany and win World War II.
Social status and location affected Dutch Jews' chances of survival.
Medical research has a dark history of human experimentation in Nazi Germany. And we're still uncovering the extent of the horrors.
When is math not just math? Political conflicts have led to new study-abroad initiatives, the creation of a world-class university, the migration of mathematicians and serious educational reforms.
Many citizens are searching for certainty and control in uncertain times. But that means too many are spurning democracy and being seduced by fake news and political strongmen. Democracy needs our help.
The Vatican will open its archives on Pope Pius XII next year. An expert explains the papacy of Pope Pius XII and the fear of communism confronting much of the Western world at the time.
Hundreds of thousands of women helped the Nazi cause. Few ever faced justice.
In anticipation of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a scholar explains how digital technologies can help close knowledge gaps about the catastrophe that claimed the lives of 6 million Jews.
Russians have been charged with interfering with the 2016 US presidential election. If true, it's not an isolated incident. Twice before, foreign powers tried to influence who won the Oval Office.
The initial aim of the 1937 Foreign Agents Registration Act was long forgotten: the prosecution of Nazis for interfering with American democracy. But that law is startlingly relevant to the US now.
American anti-Semitism took an organized form in the 20th century. The German American Bund and the Silver Legion developed a unique culture of hatred for Jews that persists today in alt-right groups.
In Terry Kurgan’s book family history, however tortuous, is subsumed into a greater history of the greatest atrocity.
The 'resistance' to the Trump administration has many forms, from grassroots organizing to making music. But a historian of 20th-century Germany asks whether opposing Trump is a real resistance.
Under an authoritarian government, freedoms can come at a steep – and lasting – price.
An all-women workforce used to weed Italy's rice fields. And they left a powerful historical legacy.
Seventy years after the end of World War II, a battle is taking place over Polish collective memory.
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