Members of the League of Nations looking over their shoulders during an assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, 1920. (Photo by Hulton Archive / Getty Images) Historians often interpret the history of Europe ...

To what extent can history, as a knowledge form, serve as an orientation in life? How can we, via a reconstruction of our past, form historical self-images that would simultaneously provide a ...

Three new books delve into how Japanese politicians, military officers, and academics navigated the tumultuous transformations of the interwar period: their country’s rapid modernization, the ...

List of abbreviations -- Maps -- 1: Introduction -- 2: First World War -- Pre-war period -- Beginnings -- How the war was fought -- US home front -- Consequences -- 3: Second World War -- Interwar ...

Noise was first considered a public health issue in interwar Britain – called the “age of noise” by the author and essayist Aldous Huxley. In this era, the proliferation of mechanical sounds, ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember:All in all, Roma and its sisters were probably the least capable of the world’s final generation of fast battleships, with the likely exception of ...