In pursuit of empire and domination, of territorial conquest or racial and religious supremacy, wars stand as a stubborn ...

Founding Fathers made it clear in their writings that the success of democracy depended on citizens with good character... “ ...

Wednesday evening, the Knox County Public Library hosted a discussion about the Holocausts of the 20th century. Dr. Rinderle, ...

For half a century, this tiny island’s toxic past meant it was declared off limits by its country’s government.

He demonstrated that fascism had its own intellectual roots and showed how ideas, theories and an antisemitic “ethos” ...

German pig skulls changed significantly due to selective breeding. Scientists found shorter snouts and flatter foreheads in ...

Short snouts and a flat profile -- within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of German domestic pigs. This is likely down to new breeding practices ...

BERLIN — Angst (a German word) is spreading across the Bundesrepublik. Amid talk that the country is the “ sick man of Europe ...

With each passing day and at an accelerating pace in recent years, it becomes increasingly obvious that we are witnessing a new era of rise of the far right on a global scale, similar to the era ...

Usvatte-aratchi Two thoughtful short essays on schools and education appeared in The Island newspaper on January 20th and 21st. The first was written by Lokubandara Tillakaratne, and the second by ...

The brutal tumult of the 20th century turned Eastern Europe, once a melting pot, into a bloc of relatively homogeneous nation ...

A new exhibit in New York City lets you step inside Anne Frank's Secret Annex.