In 1920, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected baseball’s first commissioner of the American and National Leagues.

On Nov. 12, 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese ...

but the Soviet Union reclaimed all the lost territory and more at the end of World War II, in the process shifting Poland about 100 miles west by replacing what it took with land that had been part of ...

By the spring of 1944, a year of Allied bombing had weakened Germany’s war machine. The Allies finally were ready to strike ...

“Trump,” you wrote, “is as American as apple pie.” The results of this election seem to confirm the idea that, far from the ...

Prior to Israel’s founding, the majority of European Jews rejected the idea of an ethnically Jewish nation. Instead they ...

Columnist Barth Keck says the campaign that ends today, along with its endless – and utterly baseless – claims of immigrants invading the country "from prisons and jails, insane asylums and mental ...

The Soviet Union had ambitious plans to build a powerful aircraft carrier fleet but never fully realized these goals. Despite ...

Soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces (which, at the height of the Second World War, numbered almost 200,000) played a crucial role on many other fronts: in the defense of Tobruk, and during the battles ...

With the development of the present geopolitics where armed conflicts are going on in many parts of the world, it is not wrong to arrive at such a conclusion. History repeats itself as they used to ...