In 1847, 24-year-old Matilda Joyce fled disease, death and despair in Ireland, believing that she would be delivered to the ...

(JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader whose reforms, including allowing massive numbers of Jews to emigrate to Israel, changed his country and the world, died at 91. Russian media said ...

In 1989, the Soviet army withdrew from Afghanistan after a ten-year losing battle with the Mujahedeen. Two years later, in ...

By Gamini Jayaweera In 1985, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who assumed the presidency of the USSR, sought to reform ...

Appointed in 1985, Gorbachev's domestic reforms and nuclear disarmament deals helped end the Cold War but ultimately led to the dramatic downfall of communism in Europe. Photo: Mikhail Gorbachev ...

Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban ...

IBB: In the early 1980s, the Cold War had reached a critical juncture. The arms race between the East and the West was at a ...

YMCA of Reading & Berks County will hold its 19th annual St. Paddy’s Marsh Madness Polar Plunge on Saturday, March 15, at ...

Last spring and summer, The Fulcrum published a 30-part series on Project 2025. Now that Donald Trump's second term has ...

O LDER COLLEAGUES at this newspaper recall when Monday-morning meetings involved squeezing into the editor’s office at The ...

When word of crowds gathering at the Berlin Wall reached Europe correspondent Ian Henderson on a cold November day in 1989, ...

warned that Gorbachev’s reform were simply a ruse, an attempt to win “breathing space” for the USSR. “It is,” wrote Gates, then considered to be among the agency’s top Russia experts ...