On September 13, 1971, Lin Biao, China’s defense minister, died in an airplane crash. What made his last flight memorable was that he was fleeing to the Soviet Union after he was discovered plotting a ...

Place de Grève at the Storming of the Bastille, Jul. 14, 1789, from an 18th-century engraving by Letourmy of Orléans History News Network This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the ...

The American Revolution and the founding founders are two parts of U.S. history celebrated on July 4. But two centuries later, 1776 was a rallying cry for rioters disrupting a national election at the ...

The twentieth anniversary of the Berlin Wall's dismantling triggered reflection on its lessons for Europe and the left. Now the twentieth anniversary of Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution is prompting ...