At the close of World War II, the United States faced the immense task of returning 8 million servicemen and women from battlefronts across Europe and the Pacific. This monumental effort became ...

America started attracting immigrants long before it became a country. Already in the late 1600s and early 1700s, there were ...

In a shifting context where the new U.S. administration is reshaping the rules of the international system—including aspects like migration, population movements, and economic ...

Waves of immigration to Milwaukee have made our home a multicultural and vibrant city. But it hasn't always been a warm ...

After World War II, Operation Paperclip quietly recruited German scientists to work on its most advanced weapons and space ...

NPR speaks with historian Jill Lepore about the world America made after World War II. She argues the U.S. is downplaying ideals like freedom and self-government, which were once promoted overseas.

And they saw that the West cheered capitalism more than democracy. And since they got the worst form of capitalism and the ...

VE Day, one writer wonders what his Holocaust survivor parents would make of the United States' current trajectory.