Fred Berger’s interest in family stories runs deep and has led him to travel the world looking for what was written.

Helping to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Volga German settlements of Ellis and Rush counties the American Historical ...

Elijah, Albert, Ralph, Violet, Florence… baby names that were once considered old-fashioned are now becoming popular again.

South African-born literary scholar Dennis Walder recently published an evocative life story called Amid the Alien Corn: A Son’s Memoir. In it, he tracks how, even as a child, he became aware that his ...

Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas was a world-renowned thinker on modernity and democracy who helped shape German post-war and post-reunification political discourse.

German philosopher Juergen Habermas, one of the world’s most influential thinkers and a leading voice in shaping postwar German thought, has died at age 96.

Couples in interfaith marriages came under intense pressure in Nazi Germany. But women’s protests in February 1943 may have helped save their husbands.

President Donald Trump mixed up where his own father was born during an Oval Office photo op with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. The 79-year-old said his father was born in Germany as he fielded ...

Delaware police have successfully used DNA genealogy, which is being considered to identify unknown DNA found in Nancy ...

Ed and Sally Wagner thought their 75th wedding anniversary was approaching — but they were wrong Getty (2) Ed Wagner, 95, and Sally Wagner, 92, were preparing to celebrate their 75th anniversary on ...