In his Republic, Plato put forth the notion that necessity is the mother of invention. This remains as true today as in ancient Greece. It also serves to answer the question of why Poland is such a ...

For years, Olympic slalom canoeist Dariusz Popiela, 37, trained on the Dunajec river in southern Poland. During his 20s, he paddled every day on a winding stretch between two bridges in the city of ...

POZNAN, Poland -- In the corridors of a history museum in Poznan, Poland, lie numerous artifacts narrating vivid stories of Poland's rich history and culture. Native Polish residents routinely ...

POLAND — It was a historic night at Poland Village Council on Tuesday when a good portion of the meeting was spent on history-related topics. Kicking off the public presentation was Dave Smith from ...

Fort VII in Poznan, Poland’s first Nazi concentration camp and prototype for European camps, serves as a sobering museum ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Believe it or not, the hottest controversy on Wikipedia right now isn’t about Elon Musk, Donald Trump, or ...

Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II; By Judy Rakwosky; Sourcebooks; 384 pp., $17.99 A veteran reporter who spent years ...

At the end of March, the historian Jan Grabowski was set to have a busy few weeks. First came the release of what he describes as “the most important” of his 17 books, which features his research into ...