1968 — Wilt Chamberlain becomes first player to score 25,000 points in the NBA. 1980 — Eric Heiden wins his fifth gold medal and shatters the world record by six seconds in 10,000-meter speed skating ...

The Soviet Mi-24 was a testament to the Soviet preference for brute force and power over finesse or whiz-bang technological wizardry.

The film features a meeting where San Francisco Mayor George Christopher welcomes Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev during a ...

Political interference in military leadership—especially dismissing generals and admirals based on ideological loyalty rather ...

Connor McDavid continued Canada's tradition of scoring clutch goals in best-on-best senior tournaments with his overtime ...

NPR speaks with Ukrainian journalist and activist Maksym Butkevych, who volunteered for the Ukrainian armed forces after Russia's full-scale invasion and became a Russian prisoner of war.

In one week, the U.S. president has fractured America's historic ties with European democracies to fully embrace Russia's ...

IT IS NO LESS THAN THIS IDEA OF AMERICA, this creed, this soul of America that we now see and feel slipping away. And yet, ...

Trump's rhetoric at the time sparked a major debate over the future of European security. Macron, who also took office in ...

Johnson briefly introduced the audience to alternative history by discussing novels in the genre from both a U.S. and Soviet ...

Powers, a Cold War historian who lives in the Richmond area, is the founder of the Cold War Museum in Vint Hill near Washington D.C. as well as an honorary board member of the International Spy Museum ...

In the first major league night game, the Chicago White Sox play the New York Giants in a 10-inning exhibition in Houston. 1952 — The Boston Celtics and the Fort Wayne Pistons tip ...