Czechoslovakia owes its unfortunate history to its lot as a main stage for the great conflicts of the 20th century. Born a democracy at the end of the First World War, it suffocated through decades of ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — The events unfolding in Ukraine potentially hold dire implications for the future, but the war also brings back memories of other historical conflicts in the region. That includes some ...

Czechoslovakia: The State That Failed. By Mary Heimann. Yale University Press; 406 pages; $45 and £25. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk OUTSIDERS tend to have a soft spot for Czechoslovakia. Poignant ...

Excellent pamphlet from Solidarity with a critique of the myth of the Prague Spring. It recounts the internal struggles in the Czech Communist Party as the technocrats outmanoeuvre the dogmatists, and ...

A strain of lettuce grown by a Cedar Rapids family for a century. A pepper that can be traced to 1800s Slovakia. Tomatoes that immigrants brought with them from Czechoslovakia and reproduced in Iowa ...

My interest in writing about Ivan Passer and Milos Forman’s escape from Czechoslovakia goes back more than 25 years, since almost the beginning of my acquaintance with Passer. I met him when he was a ...

With the upcoming World Championship races in Tábor, American fans will be sure to have a lot of questions, such as: is it still called Czechoslovakia? How the heck do you pronounce “Zdeněk Štybar?” ...

ROKYCANY, Czech Republic -- There are many advantages military high school dependents stationed overseas get to enjoy over their stateside counterparts. One of these advantages is getting to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... CESKY KRUMLOV, CZECH REPUBLIC — Centuries of history have earned this Czech town a designation as a UNESCO World Heritage site. It’s a Bohemian beauty, ...