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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

What if everything we’ve been taught about the dawn of civilization is a lie—or at least a half-truth? Picture this: more than... Read More

With peace talks once again underway between Israel and Hamas, and hopes again growing for a permanent ceasefire, we’re bringing you... Read More

Join Greg and his guests to learn all about French queen Marie Antoinette. Read More

While the Western front was raging following the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, what was unfolding on the Eastern Front? Why was it... Read More

Explore the people, history and causes behind the infamous panic. Read More

The international production follows the story of Churchill’s favorite spy, Krystyna Skarbek. Read More

The co-directors of the new PBS series describe how they made a documentary about a war distant in time and shrouded in myth. Read More

The ancient world can be very interesting. Read More

The Civil War ripped apart nearly every bond Americans shared — classmates, friends, even family members found themselves on opposite... Read More

The U.S.S. Edsall’s 2023 discovery at the bottom of the Indian Ocean is reviving the tale of the ship the Japanese forces called the... Read More

A ragtag 'Hooligan’s Navy' defended America’s shores in WWII. Read More

World War II experiences led to more shoulder-fired anti-tank weapons such as the RPG and the M72 LAW, both widely used in the Vietnam War. Read More

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

Sending Redcoats to American cities worked in the short term. But over time, it alienated even the colonists most loyal to the British. Read More

President Donald Trump floated the possibility of using the Insurrection Act after Oregon and Illinois objected to his National Guard... Read More

‘In America, the law is king!’ ‘No King! No Tyranny!’ For a skeptical Thomas Paine, every day was ‘No Kings... Read More

A 2,000-year-old tunnel once used by Roman emperors to slip into the Colosseum unseen will open to the public this month, offering visitors a... Read More

It took 10 years of work to prepare a Viking longship for a trip no longer than a football field. How it got to that spot goes back even... Read More

Ceasefire deal could end more than 700 days of captivity after hostages were taken during attacks of 7 October 2023 Read More

Orson Welles’ belief in the New Deal and his anxieties over American isolationism in the years before Pearl Harbour are inextricably... Read More

Notes on monarchy, democracy and national transformation Read More

Throughout Sardinia, these newly Unesco-inscribed stone necropolises tell the story of the island's pre-Roman funerary customs. But for... Read More

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