When Bowie arrived in early '76, just over 13 years before the Berlin Wall came down, escaping East Germans were still being shot on the "death strip" in the heart of the city. John Le Carre's ...

The removal of the Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C., evokes images of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of ...

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 ...

East Side Gallery 3-kilometer section of the Berlin Wall. Following the Wall's fall in 1989, artists from around the world ...

The Berlin Wall remained a symbol of Cold War tension until it was torn down in November 1989. The speech President Kennedy gave in Berlin is often called the ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ speech.