The Wings of the North Air Museum hosts a free Feb. 5 lecture on World War II daylight bombing raids over Berlin.

The tradition of treating Rousseau as someone who's lucky just to be here lives on—but the work speaks for itself. "Henri Rousseau: A Painter's Secrets," 2025. The Barnes Foundation, installation view ...

This video maps the entire Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, tracing the rapid German offensives that shattered the French armies and reshaped Europe. We follow each major campaign—from the border ...

Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xvi, 355. Illus., maps, graphics, tables, append., notes, biblio., index. $39.99. ISBN: 1009266683 At ...

The past eight decades have been the longest period without a war between great powers since the Roman Empire. This anomalous era of extended peace came after two catastrophic wars, each of which was ...

The glory of France is on Paris’ tables, rooted in its soil, and brought to fruition by its workers. Seattle Art Museum’s (SAM) “Farm to Table” highlights the notion of French excellence through its ...

As Adolf Hitler’s armies rampaged across Europe and the Soviet Union, they were followed by German industrialists who plundered the occupied countries —seizing raw materials, dismantling factories and ...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, a combat veteran, is asking the right question: What increases lethality in a modern military? Pundits and analysts can disagree about the answers and the manner in ...

SOLDIERS ON MANOEUVRES do relish a “sinking exercise”: the blowing up of a clapped-out warship as target practice. And during Valiant Shield 2024, a wargame in the Pacific, many witnessed a ...

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French artist Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi created dozens of stunning statues and sculptures throughout his 50-year career, but his most famous work isn't located in his home country. Instead, it stands ...