As politicians worldwide scramble to appeal to working people, this city in northern England has a claim to be the birthplace ...

In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, when Britain launched a ...

A fragment of manuscript found in the book binding of a 16th-century archival register was actually a famed King Arthur sequel series. University of Cambridge For centuries, the stories of King ...

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The world’s first intercity railway opened on Sept. 15, 1830. The prime minister of the United Kingdom was on board for the inaugural trip. At a stop along the way, one of the PM’s rivals ...

In “The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto,” Benjamin Wallace is hot on the trail of the person — or people — behind a financial revolution. By Will Stephenson Will Stephenson is a deputy editor at ...

COMMANDANT OF AUSCHWITZ (285 pp.) —Rudolf Hoess, translated by Constantine Fitzgibbon—World ($4.50). Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Hoess, Nazi SS captain, may have been the most monstrous executioner ...

“Islamism is the totalitarianism of the 21st century. It threatens to destroy ... French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, German antisemitism czar Felix Klein and German politician Volker Beck ...