Timothy Snyder, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2015), 480 pp., $30.00. SEVENTY YEARS after it ended, the Holocaust remains the black hole at the heart ...

For centuries, Eastern Europe has been an irresistible tableau for travel writers and novelists, a putatively European setting touched by the influence of Turks, Russians, Tatars, and other mysterious ...

Certain European cities have truly ancient roots, but Budapest’s origin story dates closer to the founding of Chicago than Rome. The city has a few notable ruins — a northbound highway runs right by ...

A wave of ancient DNA studies published in Nature has forced a sharp revision of how scientists understand the peopling of Europe, replacing old narratives of stable, isolated populations with ...