Economists warn Trump’s policies will start a 1930s-era trade war

London City Airport shut after WWII bomb found in the Thames

What other countries (and history) can teach Americans about taxation

Moldova will build a monument to Roma victims of the Holocaust

The roots of Catalonia’s differences with the rest of Spain

Ireland celebrates Che Guevara’s Irish roots with a stamp, despite opposition

Russia puts Kalashnikov on a pedestal

Trump wants a big military parade, but the Founding Fathers might not approve

The little-known story of Vietnamese communist leader Ho Chi Minh’s admiration for the US

How a violent history created the US Virgin Islands as we know them

‘What I did was so little’: Remembering World War II spy hero Jeannie Rousseau de Clarens

ISIS says it wants to rebuild the Muslim caliphate in Spain

Trump cites an urban legend about Gen. Pershing’s fight with primarily Muslim insurgents

There were Indian troops at Dunkirk, too

How Russian meddling impacted the American Revolution

Stone Age skull cult found at what might be the world’s oldest temple

Trump outraged South Koreans by saying Korea used to be part of China. Is he right?

Secret crypt in London: Beware of exploding bishops

Soviet-era nuclear testing is still making people sick in Kazakhstan

The Indian spy princess who died fighting the Nazis

There’s an intriguing theory that illiterate miners invented the alphabet

In 1917, Jerusalem tried to surrender to a British army cook who was lost looking for eggs

Back in the 1890s, fake news helped start a war

Donald Trump compared to Andrew Jackson

America has never been isolated from the world, so has ‘America First’ ever made sense?

What the world was like when the Cubs last won the World Series

About the Mosul offensive — did the ‘element of surprise’ ever matter?

Britain remembers a massive riot against fascism in London in 1936

The day tanks changed war forever

A history of undiplomatic insults

The ancient military origins of Olympic dressage

There appears to be a secret temple buried in the ancient city where ‘Indiana Jones’ filmed

Why King Tut had an awesome dagger from outer space

Survivor of WWII U-boat attack: ‘I went under and didn’t think I was ever going to come up’

After the rediscovery of a 19th-century novel, a view of black female writers is transformed

Photos: Hiroshima after the atomic bomb

Experience Hiroshima — What if the atomic bomb hit your hometown?

Where did Iran get its military arms over the last 70 years?

Famous explorer Captain Cook’s ship may have been found in Newport, Rhode Island

India wants a large diamond from Britain’s crown jewels

Brutal Bronze Age battle discovery changes understanding of history

President Obama lays a wreath on the tomb of legendary Cuban hero Jose Marti. But who was he?

Rum, hookers and smuggling: the secret story of the last presidential visit to Cuba

Vasco da Gama’s shipwreck sheds light on the earliest days of Europeans visiting Asia

Scalia’s ties with secretive aristocratic hunting society

That picturesque barn in the Swiss countryside might be a former Army bunker

DNA solves mysteries of ancient Ireland

Young American helping Brazil memorialize the slave trade

America’s first ‘War on Christmas’

A brief history of America’s hostility to a previous generation of Mediterranean migrants — Italians

A short story about the long history of the Popemobile

CIA releases declassified copies of Kennedy’s and Johnson’s daily intelligence briefs

The world when Elizabeth became queen

Why do we have birthright citizenship, and should it change?

When America occupied Haiti

Why did we start using fireworks to celebrate the Fourth of July?

An insider’s view of the battle of Waterloo

Belgium to France: Euro this, Napoleon!

Greece wants its treasured Elgin Marbles back, but the law won’t be on their side

‘You’re going to see traffic lights in the Florida Straits with so many people going back and forth’