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The attacks of 9/11 shocked the nation—and led to changes that altered U.S. government, travel and culture. Read More

As the Blitz progressed (from 7 Spetember 1940-11 May 1941) the undulating sound of German bomber engines became a nightly, dreaded sound... Read More

How the Dutch and British influenced the American Founding Read More

John "Lucky" Luckadoo flew 25 bombing missions over Europe during the war, surviving some of the most intense air battles of World War II. 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

An unpaid debt launched a war between France and Mexico. Read More

Who has control over the National Guard? How do National Guard troops juggle military service with civilian life responsibilities? Read More

Despite being known as masters of trade, these seafarers were never a single collective. Different groups built powerful cities across the... Read More

Understanding Rizzo’s career and political popularity can help explain the appeal of President Trump’s identity-based populism today. Read More

Can physical education be part of a totalitarian project to control and reshape the masses? Both the leader of Fascist Italy, Benito... Read More

The Baltimore Orioles legend and the sport’s Iron Man is still wrestling with what it means. Read More

Two hundred years ago, on 14 December 1825, a handful of liberal military officers wrote a new chapter in the history of human freedom.... Read More

Brazil may be one of the 21st century’s emerging superpowers, but its independence from Portugal was not inevitable, nor was its... Read More

Cleopatra persuaded Mark Antony to order the execution of her sister Arsinoe IV on the steps of one of antiquity’s greatest temples,... Read More

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

Join Greg and his guests to learn all about the fascinating women of the Viking age. Read More

The Israeli government recently approved a new settlement project in the occupied West Bank that would effectively cut it in half. The plan... Read More

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Blight says President Donald Trump is attacking American history and scholarship for political ends.... Read More

In a new book, the journalist Howard W. French tells the story of decolonization and pan-Africanism through the life of Ghana’s... Read More

These are the best historical dramas to stream. Read More

Georgios Varouxakis reexamines when and why people began to conceptualize "the West." Read More

Democracy and security have never gotten along in American society; even as nearly everyone agrees that some information should be kept from... Read More

How the Dutch and British influenced the American Founding Read More

September 2025 marks 85 years since the start of the Blitz, the systematic attempt by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany to bomb Britain into... Read More

The living memory of World War II is passing away. In April, the oldest known survivor of Pearl Harbor died at 106 years old. A few... Read More

Why evil histories sell. A visit to Hitler's bunker, and a deep dive into the economics and ethical quandaries of "dark tourism." Read More

The Nazi Lebensborn Program was conceived to provide A supply of Aryan children for the future of the Third Reich. Read More

Up to 450,000 Poles served in the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany, during World War II. For years, they were viewed in Poland as... Read More

A growing constituency on the right wants America to unlearn the lessons of World War II. Read More

As President Donald J. Trump sends National Guard troops to help reduce crime in the nation’s cities, lessons from Edmund Burke, a... Read More

A group in South Carolina is determined to solve some of the Revolutionary War's cold cases. Read More

In September 1975, President Gerald Ford escaped two attempts on his life—both by women and both in California. Read More

The expansion of the United States in the mid-19th century had a catastrophic effect on the Native Americans of the Great Plains. Read More

Rest of World News: Several nations, including Iran, Egypt, and Vietnam, stand out in 2025 for their remarkable longevity and historical... Read More

The Cold War was tragic, comic, and epic—and it’s still playing out today. Read More

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth century, and... Read More

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