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Redistribution wasn’t the goal Read More

The American colonists battle Parliament Read More

In 1946, less than a year after the end of World War Two, Britain's wartime leader sounded an urgent warning about the Soviet threat to the... Read More

The gold train incident was one of several involving riches plundered by the Nazi regime from their victims across Europe. Read More

Ninety years ago this month, German troops marched into the demilitarized Rhineland area in violation of the Versailles Treaty of... Read More

Mexico’s disgraced saviour General Antonio López de Santa Anna completed his comeback on 9 March 1839 as the Pastry War came... Read More

The bodybuilder built a global wellness brand around his chiseled physique. Then World War I derailed his career. Read More

A DC chance to view what newly-minted Americans saw in July 1776 Read More

Abraham Lincoln understood the importance of being visually accessible, sitting for over a hundred portraits and working with numerous... Read More

Owning proven and popular content makes good business sense. Read More

A Paiute man had a vision: A ritual dance would reunite his people with their dead. The Ghost Dance swept across other North American tribes,... Read More

Archaeology offers a useful way to counter some biases. Read More

The great cities of Mesopotamia ("the land between two rivers") developed prior to the late 4th millennium BCE along two rivers – the... Read More

From dealing with nits to learning the three Rs, ancient Roman childhood bore some striking similarities to the modern experience Read More

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

A street fight between British soldiers and American colonists turns into a bloodbath, escalating a conflict that will lead to the War of... Read More

250 years ago, Thomas Paine's Common Sense made the case for independence, but Paine knew that the harder work was figuring out how to govern... Read More

Join Greg and his guests to learn all about the life of medieval author Geoffrey Chaucer. Read More

Israel and Iran have been in almost constant conflict for nearly 50 years. Media tends to frame the violence as endemic, and inevitable... Read More

A new book chronicles the tense negotiations that secured the return of nearly 3,000 Allied civilians held by the Japanese during World War II Read More

Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity by Frank Dikötter is a balanced account of the violent years... Read More

The fourth season of hit Regency period drama Bridgerton tells the story of second son Benedict’s relationship with Sophie, a... Read More

The 2004 movie adaptation Troy retells the epic tale from Homer’s Iliad, but how historically accurate was it? Read More

Congress has the sole authority to declare war, but it’s only happened 11 times. Read More

By February 1778, the Continental Army had already endured several months of a harsh, cold winter at Valley... Read More

As Europe lay in ruins following the end of the Second World War, Churchill’s instinct was to punish the surviving Nazi leadership without... Read More

On March 24, 1945, the largest single-day airborne assault in history dropped 16,000 paratroopers on the eastern bank of the Rhine. It was... Read More

British troops struggled mightily for control of strategically vital Hill 112 in Normandy. Read More

It’s an ‘open secret’ that the CIA and MI6 helped topple the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh. Why can’t the British... Read More

Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address was truly prophetic—it revealed the spiritual meaning of the Civil War. Read More

What the economists and New Dealers missed after World War II—and why America flourished Read More

As bombs are dropping across the Middle East, we here at HR&R are eager to delve into the historical precedents of a region that is the... Read More

In 1204 the soldiers who had set out to retake Jerusalem in the Fourth Crusade changed course—but why? The result would change medieval... Read More

Our study has finally uncovered the circumstances surrounding the death of 77 people, mostly women and girls. Read More

The city of Akkad was the seat of the Akkadian Empire (2350/2334-2154 BCE), the first multinational political entity in the world, founded by... Read More

It is reasonable to imagine a wave of unease washing over the members of the Imperial Legislative Council in Delhi on 18 March 1919. The... Read More

While we “know” more and more about the American past, too many of our citizens are ignorant of who we are and where we came from. Read More

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