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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

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

From the birthplace of independence in Philadelphia to the shores of Pearl Harbor, these iconic American landmarks connect travelers with the... Read More

Control of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus strait was life and death for ancient Athens. Waterways are no less important – and... Read More

As British colonists seized Indigenous land in 19th-century New Zealand, the Māori fought to protect their ancestral territory and political... Read More

The outcome of the American Revolution may have been affected by catastrophic storms in the deadliest hurricane season in recorded history. Read More

After the debacle of the Council House treaty meeting between the Comanche and the President of Texas, Chief Buffalo Hump vowed to drive the... Read More

The North American P-51 Mustang was a long-range fighter aircraft used by the air forces of the United States and... Read More

The private rescue that halted the Panic of 1907 Read More

Before the twentieth century gave armies antibiotics, the leading killer of American soldiers in wartime was neither enemy fire nor shrapnel. Read More

In the late 18th and 19th centuries, Great Britain underwent an industrial revolution with innovations that still impact... Read More

Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” hits theaters this month, but these believers have never stopped worshiping gods like... Read More

In August 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a boldly pacifist campaign speech, promising no American would have to go to war. It had seemed... Read More

Archaeologists in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire unearthed a silver denarius bearing the name of Carausius, who ruled the breakaway state of... Read More

Some people believe the Baghdad Battery is evidence of ancient electrical technology. Read More

Monet to Matisse: Defying Tradition is at the Art Gallery of South Australia, on tour from the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio. Read More

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