Karen Petrone is a history professor at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of a few books focusing on Russian and ...

It’s sometimes easy to forget one particular, elemental truth: We live in a physical world. In a digital age — when so so much of what we see, hear and act upon is comprised wholly of incorporeal ones ...

Dive into the most intense chapter of the Battle of Stalingrad, where block-by-block combat turned the city into a fiery graveyard. Watch as Soviet defenders, backed into the banks of the Volga, ...

The Battle of Stalingrad (August 23, 1942-February 2, 1943) was one of the most brutal and bloody battles of World War II. Germany's disastrously ill-fated attack on the Russian city is widely ...