It's a modern creation that has nothing to do with any ancient design ... scheduled for Berlin, Germany, were cancelled due to the First World War. It was therefore in 1920, at the Games in Antwerp ...

Beyond that, however, the wax allows viewers to see the carefully selected newspaper clippings underneath the red, white, and blue—clippings that indicate the lengthy history behind the flag ...

It’s John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Barbara Fritchie,” an American classic. For many decades, schoolchildren memorized and ...

Authorities say the gunman killed by police in Munich fired shots at the Israeli Consulate and at a museum on the city’s Nazi ...

American Francis Scott Key awoke on the morning of Sept. 14, 1814, to find that "our flag was still there" after horrific 25-hour British naval bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore.

The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is changing the face of my home country in ways that seemed ...

Condemnation of Israel has risen all across Europe since the war in Gaza began. The United Nations General Assembly is ...

The German lender’s March annual report ... Little wonder that banks with a history of legal risk, like Deutsche, trade at a discount to the sector. And little wonder that lenders as a whole ...

Walking arm-in-arm with the Dutch queen, American World War II veteran Kenneth Thayer has returned to the tiny village that he and others in the 30th Infantry Division liberated from Nazi occupation ...

The 10th IOC President, to be announced in March 2025, could be its first female leader, or first from Africa or Asia. Or ...

The poem was a smash hit when it debuted in 1863, making Barbara Fritchie a household name in the North and going on to ...

The actual flag raised over Fort McHenry by the dawn’s early light on Sept. 14 enjoys a place of honor today at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. It’s known as the ...