At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.

Sixteen Alfred University undergraduates traveled to Germany over the recent Allen Term break, either as students in the class Looting Europe: How Hitler Stole the Continent's Art class, led by ...

Using archive video and images from the Imperial War Museum, as well as first-person testimony from veterans and ...

On May 8, 1945, the fighting in Europe during World War II came to an end when Nazi Germany’s surrender took full effect, a ...

The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence offers a chance for overdue conversations about what schools should teach when it comes to history, government, and social studies. Today, ...