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President Grant called it a “day of reflection and gratitude,” and America hosted its first world’s fair. Read More

Britain's King George III is getting a makeover as America approaches its 250th birthday. Known as the "mad king" who lost the American... Read More

The Philadelphia Experiment is one of the most grotesque military urban legends ever. Read More

Double Agent Juan Pujol Garcia, a.k.a. 'Garbo', helped the Allies mislead the Germans as to the actual D-Day invasion landing site. Read More

Civil wars have repeatedly emerged as some of the most destructive conflicts in human history because they combine military violence with... Read More

A husband and wife exchanged hundreds of letters during the war, but little is known about them. Could a new movie change that? Read More

The USS Herring saw action in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Pacific before it went missing June 1, 1944, north of Japan. Read More

Now on view at the New York Historical, “Revolutionary Women” spotlights figures with connections to the state, including a... Read More

The forgotten balance at the heart of the American Revolution Read More

Gerrymandering election districts is not new in American politics. Drawing election district lines and other manipulation of voting districts... Read More

We’ve looked at data from USA 1994 onwards to see how and when classic upsets take place – and what that could mean for this year’s... Read More

The shocking murder of its royal family in June 2001 changed the course of Nepal’s history. On the massacre’s 25th... Read More

On 1 March 1999, Breitling Orbiter 3 – piloted by Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones – took off from Châteaux d’Oex in Switzerland.... Read More

A brief history of the oldest alliance in the world Read More

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

World Cup tickets are going for as high as $45,000. Not in most of our budgets. How did things get so out of hand when the tournament's... Read More

How a war that began in Cuba saw the US acquire the Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico. Read More

Join a discussion of everyday military life in the American Revolution. Discover how armies were structured, what soldiers ate, what camp... Read More

A Major League Baseball game is abandoned after an ill-conceived promotion ends in a boozy stadium riot. Read More

In “Freedom Round the Globe,” Sarah M.S. Pearsall tracks the stirrings of liberty beyond the British colonies that became the... Read More

Apple TV’s “Star City” takes place in a world where the space race never came to an end. A spinoff of “For All... Read More

Before creating James Bond, Ian Fleming led a top-secret commando unit on D-Day, hunting Nazi codebooks and rocket sites. The truth behind... Read More

A new novel offers a disturbing account of the stark choices faced by Jews in Nazi Germany. Read More

Teen sailor Royle Luker's WWII story shocks family as he's finally laid to rest 85 years after Pearl Harbor. What secrets did his remains... Read More

As we celebrate our 250th anniversary, shouldn’t we listen to our founding president? Read More

Most Philadelphians don’t feel that the revolutionary battles outweigh what happened inside the walls of Independence Hall. Read More

No other French encampment from the Revolutionary War has been thoroughly documented in Virginia. Read More

The forgotten balance at the heart of the American Revolution Read More

A British ban stripped thousands of skilled mariners of their livelihoods overnight – and gave Washington a chance to turn the tide. Read More

One region of America is never fully allowed to move on from its past. America rightly examines difficult chapters of its history. Every... Read More

Chess spread quickly through feudal Europe, far from its roots in sixth-century India. Here’s how the game of strategy kept the elite... Read More

Dogged by rumours of stolen thrones and treachery, the Capetians were nonetheless one of the most successful dynasties of the medieval... Read More

Multiple landmarks recognize the work and lives of the nation’s first ladies. Read More

Movies of a military persuasion span civilization from early Egyptians to Vietnam. Join us for a ramble through military heritage, Hollywood... Read More

New York City played a pivotal role in the American Revolution. This museum brings the city's 18th-century history to life through artifacts,... Read More

The Bolshevik Revolution occurred on 7 November 1917 (old calendar 25 October) and established a new republic: Soviet Russia. The Bolsheviks... Read More

Imagine arriving at a frontier untouched by human hands – a vast, volcanic landscape where the future is a blank page waiting to be... Read More

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