Mohammed V defied the collaborationist Vichy regime, saving Morocco's 250,000 Jews from deportation to Nazi death camps
Aristocrats plotted to kill the Siberian peasant, who wielded undue influence over Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra. But the conspiracy backfired, hastening the coming Russian Revolution
A new adaptation offers a fresh take on James Clavell's 1975 novel, which fictionalizes the stories of English sailor William Adams, shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and Japanese noblewoman Hosokawa Gracia
Inside the search for a plane shot down over the Pacific—and the new effort to bring its fallen heroes home
A new book chronicles the 16-plus battles that took place in the Greek pass between the ancient era and World War II
During Carnival, villagers wearing wooden masks and dressing like fearsome “tschäggättä” terrorize the streets
Those who choose to put the numbers on their bodies hope the act will spark conversation about the Holocaust and pay tribute to loved ones who survived
A new book chronicles the unlikely connection between Helen Spitzer and David Wisnia, both of whom survived Auschwitz
An exhibition at LACMA traces the roots of modern media to the Great War, when propaganda mobilized the masses, and questions whether the brutal truths of the battlefield can ever really be communicated
Spanish colonizers enslaved the Lucayans, putting an end to their lineage by 1530
Jonathan Glazer's new film uses the Auschwitz commandant and his family as a vehicle for examining humans' capacity for evil
During his time in the repressive country, Charles Robert Jenkins married a Japanese abductee, taught English at a school and appeared in propaganda films
Covering war, hosting presidential debates and conducting uncomfortable interviews, these women speak truths to their community
The year's most exciting discoveries included a stolen Vincent van Gogh painting, a hidden medieval crypt and a gold-covered mummy
The 1993 film also inspired its director, Steven Spielberg, to establish a foundation that preserves survivors' stories
Odeuropa is an online database of scents from 16th- to early 20th-century Europe culled from historical literature and art
The Nazis and Soviets sought to erase the mass killing of 33,000 Jews at Babyn Yar, but a new effort seeks to remember the dead even as Russia attacks
A new Hollywood epic traces Napoleon Bonaparte's rise and fall through his checkered relationship with his first wife
An exhibition at LACMA examines the legacy of Dutch colonization through a fictive 17th-century collector's room of wonders
The last season of "The Crown" will examine the aftermath of the beloved royal's death in a car accident in 1997
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