Welcome to the eighth in our series “Landmark Speeches in American History.” We are celebrating America’s 250th anniversary ...

As President Ronald Reagan prepared to give a speech to West Berlin in 1987, Peter Robinson got to work. Trying to figure out what Reagan should talk about, Robinson visited the German capital. The ...

Pres. Barack Obama delivered his remarks on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall today in a video message during the ceremonies in Germany (there was a little controversy about him not ...

BERLIN (AP) – Berlin’s mayor has unveiled a plaque commemorating the 25th anniversary of U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s call to the Soviets to “tear down” the wall that then divided the German city.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Peter Robinson, speechwriter and host of Uncommon Knowledge, an interview show by Stanford's Hoover Institution, details the history and context of ...

On June 12, 1987 President Ronald Reagan stood before the Brandenburg Gate in West Germany and voiced his now-famous challenge to the Soviet leader: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." The Berlin ...

In 1987, celebrating the 750th anniversary of its founding, the two sides of Berlin — the capitalist West and the socialist East — spent the year competing to see who could showcase the best cultural, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! A 2 1/2 minute clip of President John F. Kennedy's anti-communist Cold War "Ich ben ein Berliner" speech on June 26, 1963 is shown, two years after ...