For the past six months, a shipyard in the Belgian city of Ghent has been reading the last rites to what might be the most ...

When East Germany built the Berlin Wall in 1961, it didn’t just divide streets and families - it split the very arteries of the city: its subway system. Once seamless, Berlin’s U-Bahn lines were ...

For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 ...

The construction of a large concrete wall at a waterfront redevelopment on Tasmania's west coast has upset locals who say it blocks views of Macquarie Harbour and affects traffic. A community meeting ...

The fall of Venezuela’s socialist regime marks a generational turning point akin to the collapse of the Berlin Wall, according to an energy expert who says the scenes unfolding there echo the ...

Jason Riley’s excellent column “Identity Politics: My Professional Look-Alikes” (Upward Mobility, Dec. 24) reminded me of the story of Winston Churchill confusing Isaiah Berlin, a British historian ...

The Berlin Apartment, which owes a debt to What Remains of Edith Finch, lets you relive the challenges its many tenants faced. By Christopher Byrd Some places are synonymous with certain years. If I ...

The Cold War lasted 45 agonizing years. Daily life in the Soviet Union was a mixture of dread and horror—children taught to report their parents’ whispered doubts, families queuing for hours for bread ...

Berlin, Germany Nov. 1961: American troops enjoying a leisurely lunch atop a tank in the Friedrichstrasse bivouac area of Berlin Command’s Company F, 40th Armor provide a bit of reassurance for local ...

The front page of The Tennessean on Nov. 10, 1989 declared: "East Germans dance on Wall," and displayed a photo of three men, arm in arm, celebrating on the Berlin Wall. The article described the ...

Berlin, Germany, Dec. 20, 1963: A woman’s walk down a Berlin street on a cold day is made even more depressing by the presence of the two-year-old Berlin Wall. In later years, buildings near the ...

Otis Library will host a program on the Berlin Wall at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 10. The event will explore the history of the Berlin Wall and its fall in 1989, according to a community announcement. The wall ...