Two scenes from the end of the Cold War: Scene one: On June 12, 1987, President Reagan stood before the Berlin Wall, the Brandenburg Gate rising behind him, to challenge to the leader of the Soviet ...

Berlin! To most Americans the name summons ominous images of The Wall and little else. Indeed, since it was built 25 years ago the 28-mile long, 13-foot high barricade has made a jagged scar across ...

View of a clip of President Reagan's famous 1987 Berlin Wall speech in which he asks Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall." Video courtesy of Reagan Presidential Library.

View of a clip of President Reagan's famous 1987 Berlin Wall speech in which he asks Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall." Video courtesy of Reagan Presidential Library.

BERLIN | In this once-divided city where Ronald Reagan famously challenged the Soviet Union to “tear down this wall,” a proposal to rename a public square or street in his honor has sparked heated ...

In 1987, Berlin was a divided city, cleaved in two by a concrete wall and treated like a political pawn in the Cold War freeze separating Western capitalism from Eastern communism. While Americans ...