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The 1823 policy has been used to justify foreign interventions. Read More

Trending News: At the height of the Cold War, when fear of falling behind the Soviet Union shaped nearly every intelligence decision, the US... Read More

The 45th was the only "green" division in the invasion with no combat experience. Its 180th Infantry Regiment struggled badly in the first 48... Read More

When German generals decided on a strategy of attrition to methodically wear down the French Army in the middle of the First... Read More

The CIA officer, who has died aged 84, sold secrets to the Soviet Union, leading to the deaths of at least 10 Western agents. In 1994, the... Read More

During the 17th-century Finnmark witch trials, 91 people were executed in Norway’s northernmost region, mainly by burning at the stake Read More

How staggering debt became the new norm Read More

The Washington Post has compiled the first database of slaveholding members of Congress by examining thousands of pages of census records and... Read More

How the collapse of political belonging is reshaping democracy. Read More

Almost three quarters of the golden age of Hollywood has been lost. Preservation only began when film came to be seen as art. Read More

Museums across the country are on a mission to save fading voices of historical witness. Read More

What did Roman houses look like, and how did they vary depending on a person's social status? Even with some considerable archaeological... Read More

Off the coast of Marseille, National Geographic Explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau hauled up thousands of ancient clay vessels—and showed what... Read More

In its document, FEMA, which is helping fund the project, said it expected excavation at the site to be completed by Dec. 19. Read More

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

Whatever you think of TV, you have to admit it has shaped the world (maybe more than the internet, according to Josh). There have been... Read More

January 5, 1968. January 5th, 1968. Slovak reformer Alexander Dubček rises to power in Czechoslovakia, sparking a brief but remarkable wave... Read More

On 15 April 1989, there was a crowd crush at a football match in Sheffield, England Read More

On January 3rd, the U.S. military apprehended Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and brought him to the U.S. for trial to face federal drug... Read More

TV series about the great founding event of the USA were thin on the ground until the 21st century. Read More

Arriving from Broadway with much fanfare, Cole Escola’s play about Mary Todd Lincoln is loaded with obvious jokes and squanders the talents... Read More

The Odyssey hits cinemas in July 2026. But will it celebrate Odysseus as the clever hero – or finally confront the wreckage he leaves in... Read More

Forthcoming from Princeton University Press, 'The Atlas of World Embroidery' celebrates the global history of a timeless fiber art. Read More

Barack Obama declared the Monroe doctrine "dead." Under Trump, it finds new life. Read More

US-led regime change campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya are painfully lodged in the modern American memory. Read More

The dictator was arrested on drug trafficking charges. Read More

The vast deserts of the American West posed logistical problems for the US Army. Camels offered a novel solution. Read More

When an oil embargo rocked the US, the president's radical solution was to make citizens start their working days an hour earlier – even in... Read More

New evidence helps resolve enduring mysteries about a 1758 incident that nearly cost the future president his life—and shaped his views... Read More

An infographic of the most iconic military machines from the Second World War (1939-45). WWII marked a decisive shift in the nature of... Read More

Irwin McDowell tried to outwit P.G.T. Beauregard at First Bull Run in July 1861 with a clever turning maneuver. But the Confederates won... Read More

By late March of 1953, the Korean War remained mostly static as peace negotiations went back and forth. U.N. and communist forces launched... Read More

The question of who owns Greenland rings throughout history, arguably beginning in the Viking Age. But since the Second World War, the... Read More

How staggering debt became the new norm Read More

When I look back at my 45 years of military service, one of the highlights of my military education was a battlefield tour I participated in... Read More

“In history a great volume is unrolled for our instruction” – Edmund Burke Read More

Years after Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette met their fates at the guillotine, Karl-Wilhelm Naundorff convinced members of the French... Read More

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