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In Kosovo, survivors maintain private museums to preserve evidence of war

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December 29, 2023 at 1:00 a.m. EST Fadil Muqolli’s home, where 53 people were killed by grenades and bullets fired by uniformed policemen. (Diana Markosian for The Washington Post)Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave POKLEK, Kosovo — Fadil Muqolli has spent more than two decades trying to rebuild his life. He remarried, raised … Read more

History Says the 1918 Flu Killed the Young and Healthy. These Bones Say Otherwise

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In the last hard days of World War I, just two weeks before world powers agreed to an armistice, a doctor wrote a letter to a friend. The doctor was stationed at the US Army’s Camp Devens west of Boston, a base packed with 45,000 soldiers preparing to ship out for the battlefields of France. … Read more