Anxieties over the abduction of young men into the French Foreign Legion after WWII reflected West Germany’s concerns about the state of their nation.

As more young adults joined the military or worked in wartime industries, England turned to children to fill the growing gap in agricultural labor.

While conspiracy theories about Ginger Goodwin’s death may interest some, these complicated explanations deflect our attention from real issues.

Moralists found it easy to criticize Spanish men, particularly the high-born among them, for all sorts of supposed failures of masculinity.

Zombie movies are scary fun, but they also help us examine our anxieties about contagious disease and unstoppable chaos.

Foreigners fighting for Ukraine may call to mind the International Brigades that fought in defense of the Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War.

Despite claims of precision strikes and the proliferation of smart bombs, the number of civilians killed in war appears staggeringly high.

Freeing a prisoner—a gesture of generosity and benevolence—may have been a way to bring together a fractured spiritual community.

Russia's rise as an imperial power was built on intercontinental expansion, and a mission of "civilizing, protecting and educating" the conquered.

The participation of white mothers in the "bitter robbery" of Indigenous children from their families was a cruel irony in the colonialist programs of the US and Australia.