The brutal tumult of the 20th century turned Eastern Europe, once a melting pot, into a bloc of relatively homogeneous nation ...

When David Bowie’s Glass Spider Tour arrived in West Berlin on June 6, 1987, the city was the world’s de facto capital of ...

In Jalopy, you set off from East Berlin at dawn in a Laika 601 Deluxe with a mismatched door and your Uncle Lütfi as co-driver. With his advice, and replacement car parts swapped for crates of ...

The Iron Curtain had already collapsed when Maria Bakalova was growing up in Bulgaria, but old sensibilities still lingered: as a girl she was discouraged from playing the “aggressive and ...

President Trump points to Chief Justice John Roberts after taking the oath of office in the Capitol Rotunda today. Photo: Kenny Holston/The New York Times via AP ...

The 1.3-kilometer stretch of the Berlin Wall was painted by various artists after the German reunification. The former gray dividing wall, a symbol of the Iron Curtain, was turned into the longest ...

The iron lung, conceptualized in the late 1920s, was most notably the first line of defense against polio during the epidemics that occurred between 1948 to 1955. The device saved the lives of ...

Last spring, when the sculpture — briefly titled “Steel Horse” and then “Pegasus” by the artist, but popularly known as Iron Horse — was extricated from a concrete pad in a cornfield ...

Everyone who menstruates loses iron when they bleed—and some may even experience iron deficiency or anemia due to the bleeding, according to experts. “Everyone who menstruates does need a little bit ...