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What did British officers think of the American Civil War as it was happening? Read More

How Americans Came Face-to-Face with the Declaration Read More

The intellectual architect of the American Founding Read More

The United Service Organizations (USO) is rolling out a new digital collection of never-before-seen World War II-era letters — and the... Read More

After the Lincoln administration began drafting for the war effort, mobs of New Yorkers savagely attacked police, soldiers, and African... Read More

Hours after the attack, a police officer shot 16-year-old Johnny Robinson in the back. Then, a white teenager mortally injured 13-year-old... Read More

William Seward's 1868 attempt to acquire the Danish territory was the country's first, but not the last. Read More

These ancient scripts offer tantalizing clues about civilizations we still don’t fully understand. Read More

When adventure turns to tragedy Read More

This year marks the 90th anniversary of the loss of an architectural wonder in South London. At 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 30, 1936, staff reported... Read More

While the federal commemoration sells million-dollar photo ops, the actual story of America’s first 250 years is sitting in 12... Read More

New radiocarbon dating of Ein Hatzeva fortress on ancient trade route in the Arava suggests it was built 2,800 years ago by the Kingdom of... Read More

When two British explorers excavated the remnants of the ancient Greek city of Cyrene in 1861, many tombs had already been looted. But the... Read More

Some of these made the textbooks. The worst parts didn't. Read More

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

Greed, Lust, Pride, Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath! You might be surprised to learn the true history of the Seven Deadly Sins doesn't start in... Read More

A glimpse into life during the Great Depression from the people that lived it. Read More

Join Greg and his guests to learn all about medicine in Tudor and Stuart England. Read More

On today’s Saturday Matinee, we consider the Louisiana Purchase- how it occurred and what would have happened if this significant deal... Read More

Katja Hoyer’s new book uses the town of Weimar to humanize an often-overlooked chapter of German history: the brief, tragic life of the... Read More

In This Land Is Your Land, the Yale historian Beverly Gage travels round US landmarks, from Emmett Till’s bulletproof memorial to the... Read More

JMC Resident Historian Elliott Drago sat down with JMC network member Jeffrey Rogg to discuss his book, The Spy and the State: The History of... Read More

Texas Rangers vs. the bad boys, and girls, of Borger Read More

The intellectual architect of the American Founding Read More

When was the last time you saw a teenage boy with a book in his hand? A phone, alas, probably all the time. But a book? Unless a teacher... Read More

Episode 14: Just Enough History American series Read More

The founding generation in America was not of one mind. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson differed on crucial ideas, but exemplify the capacity... Read More

'Pressure' star Andrew Scott reads a D-Day letter as USO hopes the public can help locate surviving members of the Weber family as part of... Read More

America’s bloodiest day began with heavy fighting that ravaged a previously innocuous cornfield in western Maryland. Read More

President Obama showed that a meticulous process means everything Read More

A private pilot named Kenneth Arnold kicked off a worldwide craze when he claimed he saw a string of shiny saucers fly past Mount Rainier in... Read More

A group of Black divers recently visited the site where the British slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 326 years ago. Read More

The pre-wedding send-off traces back to ancient customs. Read More

Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed a sealed packet of the epic poem resting atop a Roman-era mummy, suggesting they may have been used as... Read More

While in theory, a pope couldn’t be removed during the Middle Ages, late medieval Europe still found ways to challenge, undermine – and... Read More

Joan of Arc was put on trial twice, once before and once after her death. The records made at these trials are often used as evidence of... Read More

The search for the source of the Nile River was one of the last great geographical mysteries of 19th-century European exploration.... Read More

The Thucydides' Trap examines the risk of conflict when a rising power challenges an established one, from Ancient Greece to modern US-China. Read More

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