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 Imperial Japan's Yamato-class battleships, constructed before World War II as the heaviest battleships ever built, were intended to... Read More

The theater says that allowing the assassination to be recreated there would undermine the gravity and significance of Abraham... Read More

The RMS Titanic was touted as an "unsinkable" ship, but this proved to be untrue when tragedy struck. In the early morning... Read More

The Russians are facing a new threat behind the front line: tire-popping metal obstacles called caltrops dropped by drones. It is an... Read More

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, deserves a place in history books for being more widely anticipated in... Read More

Masters of the Air gives viewers a glimpse of what American airmen experienced when flying strategic bombing missions in World War... Read More

During the 1835–42 Second Seminole War and as Army scouts out West, these warriors from the South proved formidable.   Read More

L. Ron Hubbard, Operation Midnight Climax, and stochastic terrorism—the race for mind control changed America forever. Read More

When it was first named in 17th-century Switzerland, nostalgia was a very real – and very dangerous – disease.   Read More

Newspapers are said to be the first draft of history, and it's now easier than ever to look back at those drafts.   Read More

Perhaps more than any other moment in NASA’s history, the Columbia shuttle disaster reshaped the US space agency’s... Read More

History buffs will be able to stroll close to the spot where legend says Julius Caesar met his bloody end, when Rome authorities open a new... Read More

A giant predator that lived 240 million years ago was decapitated with a single, brutal bite from a deadlier creature, scientists have... Read More

A submersible craft carrying five people in the area of the Titanic wreck in the North Atlantic has been missing since Sunday, setting off a... Read More

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguay will melt down a bronze eagle found on a sunken World War II-era German destroyer off its coast 13 years... Read More

An implicit question haunts this illuminating and richly detailed memoir by Michael G. Vickers, the senior intelligence official at the... Read More

“Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power,” the American intellectual Henry Adams wrote in 1862, “and... Read More

Did Nazis love yoga? That is the provocative title of one chapter in the recently published book Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy... Read More

An acquaintance of mine, a rising star among lawyers who practice before the Supreme Court, asked me what I was reading these days. When I... Read More

One hundred and fifty-nine years ago this Sunday, a 26-year-old white supremacist and Confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth pointed... Read More

Recent research has unearthed chilling evidence of ritual sacrifices in Neolithic Europe, a practice that involved the gruesome method of... Read More

Squatting, which may be shocking to some, has a deep history in the United States. Squatting was present during the California Gold... Read More

Early on in World War II, the leaders of the Allied forces understood that the war effort would hinge on submarine warfare. Though the D-Day... Read More

On Dec. 17, 1944, the second day of the Battle of the Bulge, American P-47 pilot Ed Cottrell's engine was shot up by a German Messerschmitt.... Read More

A black-walled dining hall with 2,000-year-old paintings inspired by the Trojan War has been discovered during excavations at the Roman... Read More

Thomas Edison made film history in 1893 when he built the first motion picture studio — Black Maria in West Orange. This... Read More

In a pivotal announcement made by U.S. President Joe Biden, Japan is set to mark a new chapter in lunar exploration. A Japanese astronaut... Read More

Four centuries ago Dublin had an official city “scavenger” who was tasked with running sanitation teams to clear streets of human... Read More

More than a century after making the first controlled, sustained flights of a heavier-than-air aircraft, Wilbur and Orville Wright... Read More

David Gibbins' "A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks" is also a history of the world in 270 pages, which is why, as you might imagine,... Read More

On April 9, 1967, the prototype Boeing 737 takes off from Boeing Field in Seattle. The so-called "Baby Boeing" is a narrow-bodied, twinjet,... Read More

Rachel Mukantabana was a teenager when the devastating genocide in Rwanda unfolded. "I was 15 years old and I knew exactly what was... Read More