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The abolition of the death penalty in Britain is often seen as a symbol of the permissive 1960s. Instead, it was the result of a... Read More

Civil War historiography is heavily anchored in the mechanics of battlefield command, yet the ultimate outcome of the conflict was frequently... Read More

The U.S. 29th Infantry Division was formed in July 1917, three months after America entered World War I. Somewhat surprisingly, it was made... Read More

The Mitsubishi A6M Zero-sen is the most famous Japanese fighter of the Second World War (1939-45). Read More

In 1911, a US professor claimed he found the secret mountain stronghold of the last Incan king. 53 years later, a new explorer proved him... Read More

The torpedoing of the German ocean liner *Wilhelm Gustloff* in 1945 led to the deaths of some 9,000 men, women and ch... Read More

Newly uncovered documents reveal the story of David Maltbie, who relayed intelligence to the patriots in 1776, narrowly avoiding execution as... Read More

Fragments of a 4,500 year-old dress were stored in a museum’s basement for decades until one researcher pieced it back together,... Read More

An Iron Age hillfort in rural Devon has emerged as a possible site of one of the most significant Viking defeats in Anglo-Saxon England,... Read More

Benjamin Franklin's son William was buried in London following his death in 1813, more than three decades after he was forced to leave... Read More

An effort is underway to preserve the Witness Tree, a 300-year-old oak that stood witness to a Revolutionary War battle. Read More

Falling water levels in the Danube River have uncovered Nazi warships in Serbia and a military motorcycle in Hungary amid a drought affecting... Read More

An empire used one weapon to survive seven centuries of attacks. The formula behind it vanished, and modern science still can't crack it. Read More

Few names are more synonymous with frontier mythology than Davy Crockett. Read More

On today’s Saturday Matinee, dig into the history of the very first dinosaur to be named-- before the term "dinosaur" was even coined. Read More

Just how dangerous was it to live in Chicago during the 1920s? Was it all gangsters, tommy guns and spilt moonshine?Don is finding out what... Read More

Brownie Wise revolutionized how we store our food. She was one of the first female corporate executives in U.S. history. But she’s not... Read More

Join Greg and his guests to learn about the medieval cult of saints and their relics. Read More

Edward VIII comes out very badly in 1936: The Year of Three Kings by Sian Evans. He was an entitled, petulant philistine Read More

Empress Matilda fought her cousin for the English throne in a succession crisis that tore the kingdom apart. Read More

This joyous book takes readers on a literary adventure across 300 years of fiction, from Defoe to Zadie Smith Read More

In The Shah’s Party and the Iranian Revolution That Followed: Robert Templer reveals the hubristic high point of the Pahlavi... Read More

Bats as bombs? Pigeons guiding missiles? Discover the wildest military inventions that were almost real. Read More

The hard-fighting brigade of Kentucky Confederates etched a remarkable chapter in Civil War history as the ultimate example of divided... Read More

The Siege of Detroit (15-16 August 1812) was one of the first major actions of the War of 1812. After a botched invasion of Canada, a US... Read More

Just before sunrise on a steamy, humid morning amid the rolling hills of the piedmont just east of the Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia,... Read More

Victory over Japan Day, on August 14-15, 1945, ushered in peace after the devastation of World War II. Read More

“You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months… The eyes of the world are upon you…... Read More

Following Japan’s unconditional surrender in September 1945, the US aimed to rebuild the nation in its own image – with mixed... Read More

The Panama Canal stands as one of the most monumental engineering achievements in modern human history. Stretching approximately 50 miles... Read More

Power struggle between rival popes in Rome may have had far-reaching consequences Read More

A skeleton unearthed in Scotland likely belongs to a soldier struck by a high-speed projectile during Edward I's 1304 siege of Stirling... Read More

An Iron Age hillfort in rural Devon has emerged as a possible site of one of the most significant Viking defeats in Anglo-Saxon England,... Read More

Journalists have been decrying the decline in reading for over 100 years and yet it persists. Read More

A 1968 film retrospective brought Soviet classics to Indian towns as Moscow sought to counter Hollywood’s cultural influence. Read More

From Shakespeare to Neruda, explore the world’s best museums dedicated to authors and step inside the homes where literary history was... Read More

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