1902 — American mechanical engineer Willis Carrier designed the schematics for what would become the first modern air conditioning system while trying to solve a humidity problem at Sackett & Wilhelms ...

In his later years, Ioseb Jughashvili, or Joseph Stalin, the self-styled “Man of Steel,” was a physical wreck. Myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease, rendered lame his left hand. Rheumatoid ...

Time heals all wounds, it is said, and that certainly is the case in Russia. Moscow has unveiled a new statue of Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, better known as Joseph Stalin, or “Uncle Joe” to ...

New York Times journalist Nanna Heitmann spent six days in Russia's Kursk region near the front lines, where she was ...

Last week saw the unveiling of a monument to Joseph Stalin in Moscow Metro’s Taganskaya Station, a replica of a piece that was installed in 1950 and removed during the de-Stalinization of the ...

The Soviet Union’s Tupolev Tu-4 strategic bomber, which entered service in 1949, represented one of the most glaring episodes ...

It’s hard not to see a straight line between Stalin’s version of photoshopping and the purge of the Pentagon archives in 2025 ...

Josef Stalin, one of the most powerful and brutal leaders in history, left a legacy of death, destruction, and domination. In this Forgotten History episode, we explore the rise and fall of Stalin, ...

Stalin, in Portraits and Sculptures, Returns to Moscow To Help Putin Wage War on Ukraine ‘For well over a decade, school textbooks and lessons have portrayed Stalin in an increasingly positive way,’ a ...

The Arbitration Court of the Vologda region demanded that the monument to Joseph Stalin be removed from the museum's ...

After announcing its closure in June, Stalin may reopen later this summer in a temporary, outdoor-only format following ...