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Government shutdowns lasting more than a few days were relatively rare — until recently. The 2018-2019 shutdown was the longest in U.S.... Read More

Before the fighting even began, the Union Army of the Potomac during the Civil War had to create their own precarious living quarters. More... Read More

The April 1975 effort matched more than 2,800 infants and children evacuated from Vietnam with adoptive families. Today, the adoptees are... Read More

A milestone on the path toward racial equality in America was the full integration of Black Americans into the armed forces.  It was... Read More

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For centuries the ultimate emblem of Britishness has meant different things to different people, and now it is back in the news. What does... Read More

Passport history dates to biblical times, but the concept of a worldwide standard is relatively new. Read More

AI is showing some of the hallmarks of another technology’s rapid rise and fall back in the 1920s. These are the lessons we could learn. Read More

It was once deemed the "Communist Broadcasting System" by conservative activists. Read More

Nearly a hundred years after a protectionist policy helped plunge the world into depression, the U.S. flirts with the same economic playbook.... Read More

Ilse Koch was a notorious Nazi convicted of war crimes. Read More

How America learned not to fear the inner self but lost its places of belonging Read More

Clues are left behind in the ruins of the Mesoamerican megacity Teotihuacan. Read More

The dismissal of a government scientist over the unproven battery additive AD-X2 galvanised the American scientific community in... Read More

The highs and the lows on the way to modern America. Read More

With peace talks once again underway between Israel and Hamas, and hopes again growing for a permanent ceasefire, we’re bringing you... Read More

Join Greg and his guests to learn all about French queen Marie Antoinette. Read More

What if everything we’ve been taught about the dawn of civilization is a lie—or at least a half-truth? Picture this: more than... Read More

While the Western front was raging following the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, what was unfolding on the Eastern Front? Why was it... Read More

Explore the people, history and causes behind the infamous panic. Read More

The international production follows the story of Churchill’s favorite spy, Krystyna Skarbek. Read More

The co-directors of the new PBS series describe how they made a documentary about a war distant in time and shrouded in myth. Read More

The ancient world can be very interesting. Read More

These proposals sought to change the United States’ name, abolish the presidency and the vice presidency, and set a limit on personal... Read More

Pfc. David Gonzales saved his squad mates one by one. Read More

Union Captain Henry Sawyer drew the short straw in Libby Prison’s infamous 'Lottery of Death.' Read More

Embalming advanced as a way to preserve and disinfect remains. Read More

A young boy discovered a live World War II-era hand grenade Monday on his family's property in central Washington, authorities said. No one... Read More

More than eight decades since the “Day of Infamy,” scientists are still studying the Pearl Harbor attack. Read More

A 1915 photo from Greece is wrongly use annually as proof of a heavily mythologised Christmas 1914 match. Read More

Nearly a hundred years after a protectionist policy helped plunge the world into depression, the U.S. flirts with the same economic playbook.... Read More

In the history of the world, various revolutions and organised groups fought for their lives to replace existing ruling systems. Many of them... Read More

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When explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, got trapped in pack ice, a broken rudder was blamed. New analysis suggests structural... Read More

The tomb of Amenhotep III has been opened to the public after undergoing 20 years of renovation with support from the Japanese government and... Read More

Archaeology teaches us that we are not immune to extinction. Read More

A look back at 17th-Century Populism Read More

The highs and the lows on the way to modern America. Read More