History

Despite being spared the worst, Notre Dame is not out of danger, says the building expert Caroline Bruzelius.

By idealizing the past, Americans have made themselves unsafe in the present.

This week, India and Pakistan faced off in Kashmir, and Trump left Hanoi empty-handed.

The Russian-produced Netflix series is selling worrying myths to the public.

The country doesn’t need an openly pro-Russian political party. Its own government’s attempts to rewrite Polish history play directly into Vladimir Putin’s hands.

France’s president is pushing around Britain, Germany, and Italy—and going back to his country’s foreign-policy roots.

Germany’s unregulated highways might be the most irrational aspect of its modern identity—but you can’t blame it on the Führer.

The Chinese Communist Party sees the past as a resource to be plundered by the present.

How the ads in a crumbling newspaper offer glimpses of a vanished world.

An ambitious oral history project will determine how the war in Syria is remembered.

From being wary about the Middle East to protecting America’s intelligence services, the former president was far more prescient than he’s often given credit for.

George H.W. Bush's administration was evidence of what the establishment was capable of.

Narendra Modi is building multimillion-dollar monuments while India's poorest citizens die of hunger and preventable diseases.

As the post-Merkel era looms, Germany’s center-right party needs to ditch its eastern base and go back to its western roots.

The U.K.'s defeat at Jutland is a reminder of how a victorious force can get lazy.

It wasn’t just nationalism that fueled the 20th century’s first great tragedy.

There’s no good reason to pull Marshal Philippe Pétain from the dustbin of history.

Persecution in Xinjiang is pushing Uighurs over the border.

Economic historian Adam Tooze assesses the Italian crisis—and the prospects for a global collapse.

Will the return of the European far-right be the undoing of the West?