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A Brief HistoryOn March 5, 1936, the fighter airplane that has been called the most beautiful plane of all time made its first flight. The... Read More
ou’re the one that makes the beautiful movies.” That’s what Abraham Zapruder’s assistant, Lillian Rogers, told him on... Read More
The House of Hanover ruled Britain for nearly 200 years, and this dynasty oversaw the modernisation of Britain. Despite their not... Read More
The Aokigahara Forest is a lonely place to die.So dense is the vegetation at the foot of Japan's Mount Fuji, it is all too easy to disappear... Read More
BRANDY SCHILLACE SOMETIMES writes fiction, but her new book is not that. Schillace, a medical historian, promises that her Cold War-era tale... Read More
World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now separates us... Read More
Founded in 1703 in the westernmost corner of Russia’s territory, St. Petersburg was laid out according to the urban planning ideals of... Read More
Since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, the world has come to the nuclear brink only twice. The first, and better... Read More
Sunday, March 7th, is cold and windy. Tension grips the city, and the air seems pregnant with potential violence. Cars filled with white... Read More
People are complex, and historic events are usually even more so. As such, it is unsurprising that there are often aspects of historic... Read More
The Black Hawk, the workhorse in wartime and in natural disasters, is facing a challenge familiar to those in middle age as a new and faster... Read More
Authorities in Exeter, England, evacuated more than 2,000 homes before detonating a German World War II bomb found at a construction site. Read More
Archaeologists arrived at Marcel Loubans cave near Bologna, Italy, in 2017 to embark on a unique rescue mission . Their goal was to extract a... Read More
The oldest known instructions for the ancient art of embalming mummies were recently discovered on a medical papyrus from ancient... Read More
We all know, or think we do, that Russians have ‘empire’ lodged deep in their genes. The Russian Empire is said to have expanded... Read More
About midway through “Lucky,” the journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes describe the concerns that some Democrats had last... Read More
In the age of QAnon, it is of little comfort to learn in Michael Butter’s “The Nature of Conspiracy Theories” that such... Read More
Someone once said that there are only three really enjoyable parts of creating a book: the first royalty payment, the second royalty payment,... Read More
The election of 1800 was the first time power was transferred from one political party to another. The first president, George Washington,... Read More
I recently came across an article written by Fox News commentator, Bernie Goldberg, under the headline “Obama’s Campaign One Of... Read More
The second-century A.D. historian Appian vividly captured the moment the Roman Republic truly died: When the great orator Marcus Tullius... Read More
More than 1,000 years ago, a woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the map with her husband and a small crew, landing in what the Vikings... Read More
From time immemorial, people had the need to venerate objects of great significance: religious relics, mythical symbols, or depictions of... Read More
Julius and ethel Rosenberg were executed 55 years ago, on June 19, 1953. But last week, they were back in the headlines when Morton... Read More
hen Robert F. Kennedy was shot on June 5, 1968, he had just assumed the leadership of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party by beating... Read More
Founded in 1703 in the westernmost corner of Russia's territory, St. Petersburg was laid out according to the urban planning ideals of... Read More
Have you ever heard someone say they were going to “put the kibosh” on something? Did you ever wonder what they meant, or what a... Read More
World War II was the greatest conflict in history, carried out on a scale almost impossible to grasp. In many ways it was the first modern war, in which airpower played a vital role both on land and at sea, but many actions were ultimately won by the determination and grit of the foot soldier. Here\'s the whole vast panoramic epic of the Second World War presented in 20 of its most significant bat... Read More
After the clashes and white supremacist terror attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, the latest dimension of our unfolding national meltdown is over monuments to the Confederacy. In retaliation for the violence in Charlottesville, demonstrators pulled down a Confederate statue in Durham, several cities in the North quickly yanked theirs down, and several other places are considering the same thing.... Read More
In 1997, the historian Iris Chang published her important, incendiary book The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II. It was a vital work of salvage, resurrecting for a new generation the half-forgotten savagery unleashed on Chinese citizens by the Japanese Imperial Army during its march across Republican China in 1937. An unmatched researcher and unyielding advocate, always ele... Read More