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In an essay in The Washington Post, President Biden accused President-elect Donald J. Trump and his supporters of trying to erase the history of that day. President Biden warned Americans […]

Starting this month, all high school students in Russia have a new history textbook. On its pages, they'll find a strikingly simplistic account of the past 80 years -- from [...]

The textbooks, which cover Russian history from 1945 to present, also reimagine the brutality of Joseph Stalin's policies. As Russian high school students returned to classes after the summer break [...]

The group of about 80 protesters wore numbered lanyards around their necks and cordoned themselves off with tape as they marched, like a crime scene in motion. This odd spectacle [...]

A wave of misleading revisionism has become epidemic in both autocracies and democracies. It has been notably effective -- and contagious. In Russia, an organization dedicated to remembering Soviet-era abuses [...]

One of art's great privileges and responsibilities is to imagine lives that may not be written about in our textbooks. ''History is almost always written by the victors,'' Jawaharlal Nehru [...]

WASHINGTON -- In December 2015, Steve Bannon, now the president's chief strategist, told Donald Trump, ''You're a student of military history.'' Flattery will get you everywhere with Trump, but that [...]

KIEV, Ukraine -- Last September, I stood at the 75th-anniversary commemorations at Babi Yar -- a mass grave where more than 33,000 Jews from Kiev were massacred in two days [...]

JERUSALEM -- After more than a week of local and international condemnation, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel issued a statement on Friday retracting his accusation that it was a [...]

A TEXAS high school student and his mother recently called attention to a curious line in a geography textbook: a description of the Atlantic slave trade as bringing ''millions of [...]

JERUSALEM -- Israeli historians and opposition politicians on Wednesday joined Palestinians in denouncing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel for saying it was a Palestinian, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, [...]

Armenia's foreign minister criticized Turkey on Thursday over its angry responses to what he called the growing and ''irreversible'' trend of global acknowledgments that the killings of ethnic Armenians by [...]

DONETSK, Ukraine -- Yevdokiya was still a young girl, her nephew recalled, when the neighbors invited her over for a social occasion of some sort. This was during the great [...]

Next Friday, April 24, Armenians the world over will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the start of the mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey, now widely recognized as the [...]

SAPPORO, Japan -- Takashi Uemura was 33 when he wrote the article that would make his career. Then an investigative reporter for The Asahi Shimbun, Japan's second-largest newspaper, he examined [...]

BERLIN -- Scholars from the United States and 25 other countries gathered in Sarajevo last week to mark the centennial of World War I. Titled ''The Great War: Regional Approaches [...]

TOKYO -- In one of the clearest signals that Japan is trying to allay fears that it is whitewashing wartime atrocities -- and to repair somewhat frayed relations with the [...]

TOKYO -- Japan will re-examine a landmark apology it made two decades ago to women forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels, a government spokesman said on Friday, in [...]

TOKYO -- A series of defiantly nationalistic comments, including remarks critical of the United States, by close political associates of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has led analysts to warn of [...]

NETTUNO, Italy -- The landing of Allied forces 70 years ago who went on to liberate Rome in World War II is now the focus of a conflict between two [...]

DHAKA, Bangladesh -- It was a Pakistani journalist, Anthony Mascarenhas, who gave the world the first detailed account of Bangladesh's war of independence. In April 1971, soon after the army [...]

GAZA CITY -- When a class of Palestinian ninth graders in Gaza recently discussed the deadly 1929 riots over access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, it was guided by [...]

''THEY started to drag us away, one by one. ... I hid under the table, but was soon found. ... The Japanese officer ... took his sword out of its [...]

Institutional history -- who gets to define it, promote it, exploit it, obscure it, distort it -- sits at the heart of child sexual abuse charges like those currently unfolding [...]

Parliament narrowly adopted a bill recognizing the famine in 1932 and 1933 as an act of genocide by the Soviet Union against the Ukrainian people. President Viktor A. Yushchenko pushed […]

Depending on when and where you went to grade school, you've probably heard one of these versions of the first Thanksgiving: 1. After a kindly Indian named Squanto taught the […]

IN his heart of hearts, Bill Stanley probably knows that he's not going to convince the world that George Washington was the 11th president of the United States and that […]