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Regime change might seem straightforward at first. Not so fast, says history. At least when the United States is involved. Read More

The mutual resentments that have fueled tensions between the US and Iran have simmered for nearly half a century Read More

American patriots began a conflict that spread around the globe. Read More

Britain and France battle over control of North America Read More

When Operation Bribie ended, eight Australians were dead and 27 were wounded. The men who survived were divided over whether to call it a... Read More

From ancient cave drawings to the Internet, men have been reporting their wars almost as long as they have been fighting them. Read More

What the economists and New Dealers missed after World War II—and why America flourished Read More

Unpacking the meaning of an Asafo flag, the military banner first created in the coastal villages of Ghana in the 17th century, can feel like... Read More

An anthropologist has spent years investigating reports of ape-like creatures on Flores Island. Read More

The personal library of Henry Knox encompasses a wide array of topics, from Middle Eastern civilization to philosophy to military tactics. Read More

The Norman Conquest is credited with reshaping England, but was 1066 really all that? Read More

Scientists believe they have found evidence of written thoughts of Stone Age people on ancient objects. Read More

When Charlotte Brontë died—the last of her massively talented family to succumb to an early death—the press entered a feeding frenzy. A... Read More

This collection of maps tells the story of World War II in Europe and Africa (1939–1945), a global conflict that emerged from unresolved... Read More

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

Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company and inventor of the iconic Model T, was a towering figure in 20th-century America. A pacifist,... Read More

When President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in the middle of the Civil War, he was not just changing the terms of... Read More

Misha Glenny and guests discuss the origins and harsh realities of the gladiator life. Read More

Brothers & Freeborn Black men, William & Ben Frank enlisted in the Continental Army. They gambled military service would earn them a better... Read More

February 24, 1868. The House of Representatives moves to impeach Andrew Johnson, making him the first president impeached in US history. Read More

Lauren Yee’s play about the early post-Soviet era in St. Petersburg is a very funny tragedy. Read More

The Cancelled Prime Minister: The Extraordinary Rise and Tragic Fall of Ramsay MacDonald by Walter Reid finds the romance behind... Read More

Black History Week was launched to correct the record—and show why inclusive American history matters. Read More

Her role as a historic hero or villain depends on the movement in question, but looking at her as a mother and daughter adds depth to her... Read More

Capt. Robert A. Lewis, the co-pilot of the Enola Gay, scribbled thoughts in a notebook while the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan. Read More

After Nazi forces invaded Denmark in 1940, a Canadian crew sailed through the Northwest Passage to establish authority in the... Read More

Jermain Wesley Loguen opened his home to fugitives fleeing the South. He publicized this work openly, risking arrest or even re-enslavement Read More

Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi arrived on Iwo Jima in June 1944. Over the next eight months, he built one of the most elaborate defense... Read More

The largest cavalry battle of the American Civil War took place at Brandy Station, Virginia, where J.E.B. Stuart's Confederates and Alfred... Read More

Known as the “godmother of civil rights,” Dorothy Height fought not just for racial justice but for women’s equality. Read More

What history gets wrong about the 11th president Read More

There’s no doubt that the Americas were irrevocably changed by European contact. The decimation and sociopolitical transformation of... Read More

Charlotte Despard publicly denounced British imperial rule from London in the 1920s. Her activism linked women's suffrage with India's fight... Read More

Indigenous slavery, which lasted for centuries, has gone by many names. A new public history project wants us to see it for what it was. Read More

Opinion | Seventy years ago today, on Feb. 25, 1956, then-Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev took to the podium in Moscow’s Palace of... Read More

Archaeologists in Germany have discovered a corridor system from the late Middle Ages in a burial site dating back to the 4th millennium BC. Read More

Several claim to be the oldest in the land, but which candidate is most likely? Our expert weighs in Read More

In 1957, the painter showed the BBC how he built up his pictures of industrial urban life from his imagination, and described the loneliness... Read More

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