‘Crucibles of Power’ Review: Terrible Crossroads In Smolensk, residents were obliged to fear both the occupying Nazis and what would happen if Soviet rule returned.

God, Zangwill claimed, was using America as “a crucible” to melt the “fifty” barbarian tribes of Europe into a metal from which He can cast Americans.

David-Fox provides a detailed examination of the tragic history of the western Soviet territories that swapped hands between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany twice between 1941 and 1943.

Cold Crucible Induction Melting (CCIM) is a melting method that combines induction heating with water cooling in order to keep a crucible cold while materials are melted. the method allows for the ...

The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was once at the center of the deadly 2017 White nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been melted down.

A 39-year-old Caterpillar worker fell into a molten iron crucible of over 2,600 degrees Fahrenheit and died immediately last Thursday at the company’s Mapleton, Illinois foundry. He is the ...

Nazi and Soviet ideology each rested on the claim that history was on its side, but Mr. David-Fox demonstrates the disruptive role played by sheer contingency.

Molten bronze produced by melting Charlottesville's monument of Robert E. Lee is poured from a hot crucible into ingot molds.