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Some Hispanics With Jewish Roots Pursue an Exit Strategy: Emigrate to Spain

A growing number of Hispanics from the United States are choosing to benefit from a 2015 Spanish law seeking to atone for one of the grimmest chapters in Spain’s history: the expulsion of thousands of Sephardic Jews in 1492. The law offers citizenship to descendants of those Jews.

Two Years and Hundreds of Inflammatory Ads Later, the G.O.P. Is the Party of Trump

And the party of angry messages tinged with racism.

Ex-Guard, 94, at Nazi Camp Is Tried in German Juvenile Court

Johann Rehbogen was still a teenager when he began work as a guard at the Stutthof concentration camp, where he was stationed between June 1942 and September 1944.

Justin Trudeau apology to Canadian Jews for turning away the desperate refugees of the St. Louis in 1939

Hundreds died in Nazi death camps.

Former Belgian King Ordered to Give DNA for Paternity Test

Delphine Boël grew up certain that she should be a princess. Now a court ruling and a DNA test could make it true.

Wonder How Trump Will Handle Defeat? Don’t Bother with History.

by Jeff Greenfield

The behavior of other presidents who dealt with midterm rebukes won’t be much use.

The 'law and order’ campaign that won Richard Nixon the White House 50 years ago

Trump has invoked the same phrase as he campaigns for Republicans.

The Soviet Side of the 1983 War Scare

Far from being a “non crisis” or a “war scare that wasn’t,” the 1983 US-Soviet confrontation is a profound representation of the “hair trigger” mindset toward which the nuclear arms race can push humanity.

Neil Armstrong's Moon Memorabilia Fetched More Than $7.4 Million at Auction

Dallas-based Heritage Auctions says the item that sold for the highest price, $468,500, at Saturday’s auction was Armstrong’s spacecraft ID plate from Apollo 11’s lunar module Eagle.

The first midterm ‘wave’ election that ended Republican control of government

In 1874, Democrats picked up an astounding 94 seats in the 293-seat House.

World Leaders Gather In France To Commemorate End Of WWI

A weeklong series of commemorations has begun in France to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, with some 80 world leaders expected to attend.

New Poll Finds that Canadians Don’t Know About the Women Who Shaped their History

55 per cent of those surveyed could not name the accomplishments of Canadian women.

The striking parallels between 1992’s “Year of the Woman” and 2018, explained by a historian

In both years, women ran for office to push back against sexual misconduct.

Obama Presidential Center Clears Last City Hurdle, Others Remain

The Chicago City Council approved an agreement between the Obama Foundation and the city to build the presidential center in Jackson Park.

William proposed. Sandra said no. They reunited on the Supreme Court.

Decades before they would serve together on the Supreme Court, William Rehnquist and Sandra Day O’Connor were engaged in a different type of courtship.

National Archives releases draft indictment of Richard Nixon amid Mueller probe

The documents, known as the Watergate Road Map, as released Wednesday contained redactions and never-before-seen remnants of the investigation into Nixon.

Nantes is finally confronting its slavery past

A museum established to reveal details about the slave trade shocks visitors.

A century on from WW1, 100 years of work remains to clear munitions

Bomb disposal experts are still digging up munitions sunk in the killing fields of eastern France — and it could be another 100 years before they are done.

The Intellectual Origins of Trump’s Chilling Immigration Plan

It can be traced to a paper that came out of the right-wing Claremont Institute in the 1990s.

How a World War II-Era Reparations Case Is Roiling Asia

South Korea’s top court stirred decades-old resentments that threaten to inflame relations with Japan, ordering a leading Japanese steel maker to compensate Korean men forced to work as slave laborers during World War II.