Addressing Congress in 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt warned Americans about being lulled into unconsciousness by those who pooh-poohed the dark clouds over Europe created by Adolf Hitler and ...

In researching her new book, 'Women of War,' author Suzanne Cope found a whole new side of her grandmother — and her own ...

April 28 has long been a day marked by remarkable events that have shaped the course of history across the globe. Turning ...

Thor Heyerdahl and five crew members began a trip from Peru to Polynesia on the Kon-Tiki, a raft made of balsa logs.

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The Vatican, headquarters of the Catholic Church, is the smallest state in the world, with its own newspaper, national anthem ...

Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI are among the elected bishops of Rome who have led the Catholic Church ...

Pope Francis often spoke with great sympathy for immigrants and refugees. NPR's Scott Simon reminds us that the Pope's father ...

For nearly two decades, millions of Italians, and thousands of Jews, believed in Benito Mussolini as the man to make things ...

Mussolini’s rise shows that strongmen are only as powerful as the democratic opposition allows. Failing to take them ...

The Italian Resistance offered an entire generation the chance to make radical choices, to decide not only on their deeds but ...

Italians celebrate liberation from Fascism. One leading partisan was Ilio Barontini, a Communist who helped lead Ethiopia’s ...