Jack Jennings, a British prisoner of war during World War II who worked as a slave laborer on the Burma Railway, the roughly 250-mile Japanese
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Lawrence Langer, Unblinking Scholar of Holocaust Literature, Dies at 94
Lawrence L. Langer, a literary scholar whose unblinking assessment of the Holocaust as an event so vast and evil that it defies moral framing helped
Edward Jay Epstein, Author and Stubborn Skeptic, Dies at 88
Edward Jay Epstein, an iconoclastic author whose deeply researched books challenged conventional wisdom about controversies ranging from whether John F. Kennedy was killed by a
Glynis Johns, a Tony Winner and Actress in ‘Mary Poppins,’ Dies at 100
Glynis Johns, the British actress who in a trans-Atlantic career that endured for more than 60 years won a Tony Award for her role in
Maureen Flavin Sweeney Dies at 100; Her Weather Report Delayed D-Day
On certain rare occasions, ordinary people in the midst of an average day have changed history. In 1947, Muhammad edh-Dhib, a young Bedouin shepherd looking
Jacques Delors, Passionate Architect of European Unity, Dies at 98
Reluctance in France and Britain kept the commitment to political unity, an aspirational United States of Europe, weak. Still, four countries — Austria, Norway, Finland
Glenys Kinnock, Political Force in Britain and Europe, Dies at 79
Glenys Kinnock, a former European lawmaker and British government minister who helped secure for women a central role in the continent’s politics, died on Dec.
Alistair Darling, Guiding Hand in Britain’s Financial Crisis, Dies at 70
Alistair Darling, a British lawmaker and cabinet minister who played a leading role in his country’s response to the 2008 global financial crisis, rescuing troubled
Audrey Salkeld, Pioneering Historian of Everest, Dies at 87
Audrey Salkeld, a pioneering historian who mined archives that had been neglected for decades to write about mountains like Kilimanjaro and Everest, which she also
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Who Looked at History From the Bottom Up, Dies at 94
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, a French historian at the forefront of a scholarly movement that sought to understand the past from the bottom up, by