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During the lesser-known 1943 Sobibor Uprising, several hundred Jews fled into the forests of Poland, where many were tracked down and shot.... Read More

This is not a dream. It isn’t some nightmare from which we can awaken to find our friend alive and well. No. This is a hero’s tale - one... Read More

How Finland’s resistance to Stalin foretold Ukraine’s defiance of Putin. Read More

The great sea battle between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire was seen as a pivotal moment in history. Have the consequences of... Read More

The Massachusetts-born naval officer was in the thick of several celebrated naval battles for the North during the Civil War. Read More

The Franklin-Nashville Campaign (September-December 1864) was the last major military operation in the western theater of the American Civil... Read More

These factors helped seal his triumph over the English king. Read More

It's been 85 years since The Great Dictator first dazzled audiences in 1940. It was a big risk for one of the world's most popular performers... Read More

This was 1857, and violence had been fanned by the American Party, which posited that the influx of German and Irish immigrants was... Read More

Dickinson played a pivotal role in our Nation’s founding, from the Stamp Act to ratifying the Constitution, but his contributions are... Read More

Lincoln, Coolidge, and America’s founding principles Read More

Today's efforts to dismantle "DEI" echo those of President Woodrow Wilson over a century ago. Read More

They performed before thousands and could become celebrities, yet actors in ancient Rome were stripped of their civic rights. What was life... Read More

Some sixty years after her grandmother discovered “Nutcracker Man,” Louise Leakey unearths his long-lost hand—reviving a... Read More

The Erie Canal solidified New York’s reputation as the Empire State, but it also opened up an expressway for invasive species to reach the... Read More

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

Pre-Revolutionary War, the little known Battle of Alamance was the climax of the "Regulator Movement," which saw local citizens take up arms... Read More

Join Greg and his guests to learn about the life and works of literary legend Jane Austen. Read More

Discover how hoes, shoes, and cloth linked New England factories to Southern slavery in early America with historian Seth Rockman. Read More

After endeavouring to wreak their revenge on Serbia, what would be the greatest hammer blow to the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the First... Read More

“1929,” by the New York Times journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin, is a tale of greed, corruption and incompetence to shock the... Read More

Two new history books make a strong case for why learning about the past is critical to understanding the world today. First, History Matters... Read More

Karl Marx never visited the United States, but he and his ideas left an imprint nonetheless. Read More

Anthony Boyle stars as a tortured heir to the brewery fortune in Netflix historical series House of Guinness. In the aftermath of his... Read More

It started a researcher down a rabbit hole "beyond anything anyone could ever dream up", involving deception, double agents, secret names and... Read More

Albert Speer distanced himself from the Nazis' atrocities at the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal in October 1946. In History revisits a 1970... Read More

The Battle of Nashville (15-16 December 1864) was the last major battle in the western theater of the American... Read More

Generals Patton and Montgomery engaged in a battle of wills in Sicily during Operation Husky—the first major Allied move against an... Read More

Its surprising history includes pirate attacks and spud warfare. Read More

In the spring of 1968, Donald P. Gervais’s helicopter crashed into a ravine in the dangerous A Shau Valley in the Republic of Vietnam. He... Read More

At a curious stone tower in Somerville, Massachusetts, panic in 1774 could have sparked a war seven months before Lexington and Concord... Read More

Thousands of African Americans fought for the British—then fled the United States to avoid a return to enslavement. Read More

Lincoln, Coolidge, and America’s founding principles Read More

Alfred Nobel’s Peace Prize has become something other than what its founder intended in 1895. Where have the ‘Champions of... Read More

Historian Esteban Mira Caballos presents a rigorous biography of the navigator that uses data to refute some of the legends that surround his... Read More

Archaeologists have presented the preliminary results of excavation on Crete, where a unique Minoan Labyrinth was discovered in 2024. Read More

What were the lives of women like throughout the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods? Modern archaeology is only just beginning to provide a... Read More

Women in early modern Wales typically dressed in long skirts, large woollen shawls, and tall, black hats. Could they have inspired... Read More

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