In this excerpt from The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, Frederick Taylor, a German historian, describes the moments leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall by weaving together history ...

Cascade Heights has been known as a home to Black prominence and power in Atlanta. Several notable politicians, sports ...

The highlight of our 1989 trip was a special side trip to Berlin to participate in the historical tearing down of the wall at Checkpoint Charlie and other places. While there, we celebrated New ...

Starting on Friday the city of Berlin will be celebrating the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the most ... goes to the Netherlands to take a tour inside the world's first ...

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 geopolitical turmoil, cleft in two physically and politically by 168km (104 ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...

The decisions taken by either side could have led to disaster. The end of the Cold War By the beginning of the 1980s, the Soviet Union faced several challenges. The taking down of the Berlin Wall ...

The building of the Berlin Wall The response of the West The impact ... just thirteen days before the USA and the USSR were preparing to sit down for a summit meeting in Paris, an American U2 ...