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In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, author Thomas Kuhn argued that science progresses through long periods of stability within a... Read More

Since the 1970s, the August state fair has routinely hosted state and federal political candidates hoping to sway Iowa voters.   Read More

Hannibal’s strategy for defeating Rome was based on the idea of winning enough battles to force Rome to seek a negotiated peace. This... Read More

Panic at Bull Run is an excerpt from a longer article, The Battle of Bull Run, by the famous English journalist William... Read More

Some 30,000 German soldiers fought for the British during the war. Contrary to popular belief, they weren't mercenaries, and not all were... Read More

For more than 70 years, nuclear power has propelled America’s silent service — attack submarinesstalking their... Read More

Indian teams besting British sides on the polo field threatened to undermine the colonial enterprise. Read More

John W. Davis’s fight against government overreach Read More

Elizabeth strategically deployed emotion to achieve particular political goals. Read More

King Olaf Tryggvason’s dramatic fall at the battle of Svolder in around AD 1000 became one of the most famous episodes of the Viking Age.... Read More

These wooden carved birds suggest a shared longing: escape. Read More

In 2019, researchers identified Koskarlı Cave near Trabzon, in Türkiye’s eastern Black Sea region. According to a study published in the... Read More

Hundreds of ancient amphorae were found piled up about 150 feet underwater, suggesting the relics came from a Roman shipwreck from about... Read More

Peterloo Massacre survivor William Cheatham's history has been told for the first time by a historian. Read More

Every picture just keeps getting more interesting than the last one. Read More

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

Thirty years after the bombing of Nagasaki, a US physicist who helped to assemble the bomb revealed to the BBC why the blast couldn't be... Read More

Pilot Ben Ernst bailed out of his stricken B-25 Mitchell bomber off the coast of Palermo and spent two years as a POW. Read More

The otherworldly beasts and enigmatic masks of Sanxingdui still enthrall China, decades after unearthing of ceremonial pits Read More

In 1906, US troops slaughtered up to 1,000 Moros at Bud Dajo in the southern Philippines, then called it a battle. Historian Kim Wagner... Read More

1980s Catalysts to Fall of "Independent" Agencies Included Cameo by Massachusetts AG Read More

Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton were comrades on their first Antarctic adventure but the expedition would sow the seeds of future rivalry. Read More

The German businessman was obsessed with Homer and determined to find King Priam's city. But his recklessness turned dangerous as he dug for... Read More

The Danube is at such a low level that Second World War relics are resurfacing in Budapest: alongside a motorbike, the bodies of two soldiers... Read More

The Iliad and Odyssey have shaped Western ideas of heroism for nearly three millennia. Yet despite centuries of debate over whether they... Read More

John W. Davis’s fight against government overreach Read More

The Aztecs combined two interlocking calendars into a 52-year cycle that set the rhythms of daily life and sacred rituals.   Read More

Save Our Signs aims to document every sign in the more than 400 national parks and historic sites across the country before the Trump... Read More

As Washington continues to argue over whether the American founding should be celebrated or deconstructed, and while most... Read More

Nobody knows who dropped Speedy Weber’s correspondence at a USO office in 2022. Researchers have finally tracked down two living... Read More

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