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As a naval aviator in World War II, Donald McPherson got five aerial kills. Then he spent decades in a life of service. Read More

Historian Richard Overy explains how the US firebombing of Japanese cities in 1945 killed more civilians than Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined... Read More

The MAG before MAGA Read More

Historians trying to explain the Watergate break-in usually point to an earlier break-in at the Beverly Hills office of a psychiatrist who... Read More

Nearly 1,400 people died after Hurricane Katrina crashed into Louisiana and Mississippi. Most of the deaths were in New Orleans, which has... Read More

A levee failure along the Mississippi caused a 48-day flood. Read More

In 1774, 51 North Carolinian women led by Penelope Barker signed a resolution supporting the boycott of British goods Read More

While their comrades manned the trenches of the Western Front, a force of one million Allied troops languished in the dreary Greek port of... Read More

With bloody conflicts in so many hot spots around the world, we should remember that the erasures of civilizations are not mere memories from... Read More

Six armed robbers. One warehouse. Three tons of gold worth around $320 million today. The raid on the Brink's-Mat secure storage facility on... Read More

For a certain kind of amateur historian there is a moment, fixed in the imagination, endlessly revisited: it is still not yet late on that... Read More

For the Victorians and Edwardians, the late British summer was a time of sun, sand – and sea serpents. Read More

Craniometry, the study of skull measurements, was widely taught in medical schools in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Read More

Kids were wearing jeans jackets in the 1680s… Read More

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

How and when was football invented, and what are the origins of football clubs? What is the connection between public hangings, highwaymen,... Read More

What do John Hinckley Jr. and a jazz age tuberculosis patient have in common? Legal correspondent ​​Mackenzie Joy Brennan takes Sarah... Read More

The 25th amendment. A few years before JFK was shot, an idealistic young lawyer set out on a mission to convince people something essential... Read More

In Asia, people are still unearthing wartime secrets. Read More

By Kevin Seabrooke Full Reviews With Pearl Harbor: Japan’s Greatest Disaster (Mark Stille, Osprey/Bloomsbury Publishing, 368pp., 16-pages... Read More

M*A*S*H, Band of Brothers, and The Pacific are all among the absolute greatest war TV shows you simply must watch. Read More

The real-life British secret agency behind Operation Postmaster helped launch James Bond and end World War II. Read More

A plane crash...self-amputation...438 days at sea. Read More

This Reflection was written by Jesse Schraub, who turns 101 this month, with the help of his three daughters, Alice Kinsler, Ellen Gang, and... Read More

On 19 August 1960, a Moscow court handed a US airman, Francis Gary Powers, a 10-year sentence. The BBC reported on what became a Cold War... Read More

During his lifetime, Crockett—who went by David, not Davy—shaped his own myth. In the 20th century, his legacy got a boost from... Read More

As exhausted Confederate soldiers shivered outside Nashville, Union General George Thomas prepared to launch a devastating frontal assault. Read More

Journalist, author and historian Clay Risen spent six years working on “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern... Read More

The 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender on Sept. 2 reminds us of just how different these two campaigns were. Read More

The Museum of Gdańsk’s project about the 450,000 Polish soldiers made to fight for the Third Reich has attracted rightwing protests,... Read More

‘Socialism with a human face’ came head to head with the realities of Soviet communism during the Prague Spring of 1968. Read More

Editor’s Note: This is part of a new series of essays entitled “Battle Studies,” which seeks, through the study of military... Read More

The Creole Mutiny/Creole Rebellion (1841) was an insurrection aboard the brig Creole on 7 November 1841 during which 19 enslaved... Read More

This teenage 'puppet' emperor only ruled for 10 months. Read More

From art to architecture, this pioneering bronze age civilisation had a huge influence on other western cultures. Read More

When two revolutionary republics collided Read More

From the oracles of ancient Rome to Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, humans have long turned to the dream world to decode the mysteries of the... Read More

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