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Why land, more than just memorials, deepens the etch of history. Read More

The Confederate attack during the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg overran the Union III Corps and, in one place, reached the crest of... Read More

On July 10, 1943, the Allied invasion of Sicily — codenamed Operation Husky — put more assault troops ashore on its first day than the... Read More

In the Old Waxhaw Presbyterian Church in the backwoods along the border between North and South Carolina, Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson wiped... Read More

The women who answered lonely pioneers' newspaper ads didn't just find husbands—they helped build frontier communities. Read More

The Homestead Act was a policy enacted by the United States government on 20 May 1862 to encourage westward expansion. Passed during... Read More

A new study suggests linguistic diversity reached its peak between 1000 B.C.E. and 1000 C.E. before declining Read More

Planetaria are model objects that display stars, planets, or other celestial bodies and their movement. This blog post explores the different... Read More

Archaeologists are investigating the site of a Roman military camp located near the town of Šurany in southwestern Slovakia.... Read More

The Roman Empire had two main populations: gods and humans. By its end, there was only one god left. How, and why, did he reign supreme? Read More

Gladiators really were sex symbols—just not in the way one might expect. Read More

The D-Day landing beaches in Normandy were added to UNESCO's World Heritage List Sunday. The 80-kilometre stretch of coastline in northwest... Read More

How much US history do you remember? Read More

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

Route 66 turns 100 this year. It's considered America’s most nostalgic road trip. With wide open road, sunsets that fill the whole sky,... Read More

The ancient civilisation which thrived in the Sahara Desert over 2,000 years ago. Read More

How did a kingdom of palaces, privilege and powdered wigs collapse into revolution? What turned hunger into uprising?In this first episode of... Read More

On May 27, 1905, the Russian and Japanese fleets faced off in the Tsushima Strait during the Russo-Japanese War. It is the first modern naval... Read More

On 24 June 1941, a heavily guarded train slipped secretly into the dense, swampy forests of East Prussia. Two days prior, Adolf Hitler had... Read More

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world.... Read More

The earliest surviving fragments of the epic poem—the subject of Christopher Nolan's latest Hollywood blockbuster—date back more than... Read More

The 56 men who signed their names to the Declaration of Independence knew that if the British prevailed, they’d be tried for treason.... Read More

The private rescue that halted the Panic of 1907 Read More

Argentina's iconic first lady died in July 1952. Sixty years on, the BBC looked back at her cadaver's bizarre disappearance – and its... Read More

In 1811, several hundred enslaved men walked off the sugar plantations of Louisiana, armed themselves, and began marching toward New Orleans.... Read More

The Battle of Stalingrad began in August 1942, subjecting its residents to months of living hell. But few doubted that the city was worth... Read More

From Cold War aircraft testing to UFO speculation, the highly classified military testing site has been surrounded by myths for decades. Read More

Fear of communism was at a high with the creation of the DEFCON ranking system. Read More

Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji Jadeja, ruler of the princely state of Nawanagar, opened his realm to young Poles who had been detained in Soviet... Read More

While Vienna’s coffeehouses bred modernism, in Belgrade’s kafanas grew conspiracy and rage. Their clash consumed Europe Read More

As the end of World War II neared, a German officer began secret negotiations with the Allies to surrender forces in Italy. Read More

“Over there, over there,Send the word, send the word over there…That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming… we’re coming over…... Read More

In 1522, the explorer Ferdinand Magellan added another tally-mark to Portugal’s maritime score-card when he became the first person... Read More

The mysterious coalition of seafaring raiders devastated the ancient Mediterranean.   Read More

In Greek mythology, Calypso, whose name means "to hide" or "to conceal," is a nymphbest known from Homer's (c.750 BCE)... Read More

Carl von Clausewitz outpaces every contemporary from Napoleon and Jomini to Scharnhorst and Wellington as the premier military theorist of... Read More

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