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Eighty years ago today, German artillery opened fire on an inexperienced American division that had been at the front for less than a week.... Read More

Since its inception in 2014, the College Football Playoff has had eight instances in which a team rallied from a double digit deficit.... Read More

The Coast Guard is responsible for counter drug patrols in the Caribbean and has seized half a million pounds of narcotics this year. Read More

During the seventh century the Arabs invaded North Africa three times, bringing not just Islam but a language and customs that were alien... Read More

Long before Cleopatra and Hatshepsut, Ankhnespepy II amassed unprecedented political and religious power. Here's how. Read More

The roughly 11,000 inscriptions preserved by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 C.E. offer a glimpse into everyday life in the Roman Empire Read More

While Confederate defenders at Petersburg manned their lines in the predawn hours of July 30, 1864, a long fuse sputtered in the earth... Read More

For centuries, India's history has been entangled with that of the Tibetan Plateau, a reality that has often fuelled tensions with the... Read More

The Supreme Court has a chance to correct the record on the very meaning of trial by jury. Read More

The famous painting by Grant Wood shows a farmer holding a pitchfork and a woman standing next to him. The earlier sketch is a bit different. Read More

Why we need a new standard for assessing presidents Read More

Video games are changing the way people understand the past Read More

From fruit flies that bite to a tiny mouse opossum and a feathered dinosaur preserved with the remains of its last meal, more than 70 new... Read More

See popular Christmas tree decorating fads dating back to 1920s. Read More

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

The French Revolution would bring about many, many changes in Europe. One of the most radical was the dechristianization of France –... Read More

A family field trip to Hadrian's Wall, with Greg Jenner as your guide. Read More

When Washington DC's most wanted were captured under the guise of winning NFL tickets Read More

December 18, 1944. In a controversial judgment, the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the racist treatment of Japanese Americans during World War... Read More

Compelling new reads for the history buff on your gift list. Read More

Three experts discuss their behind-the-scenes experience as historical advisers to the new series. Read More

From politicians to music legends, here are eight biographies about fascinating identities and their impact on our world. Read More

Their relatives might have been on opposite sides of near-nuclear war, but the US and Soviet leader’s descendants have teamed up for an... Read More

Was it an irrational act? Hardly. Pearl Harbor merely gave him the excuse he had long been seeking. Read More

The sinking by Japanese aircraft of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse in December 1941, and the subsequent loss of... Read More

The behind-the-scenes story of how a World War I hero helped to strengthen U.S.-British ties and forged the beginnings of today’s CIA. Read More

A Jewish organization helped him flee as a teen. Years later as a US soldier, my father went in search of the parents he'd lost. Read More

False narratives have a way of becoming taken as fact in popular understanding. After years of repetition, these statements calcify into... Read More

Why we need a new standard for assessing presidents Read More

Boyd Tonkin is a journalist, editor, and literary and music critic, and author recently of The 100 Best Novels in Translation. Read More

'All in the Family' made Rob Reiner famous. Its history also makes clear why some shows have free rein, while others pull their punches. Read More

In a daring raid 75 years ago, four university students stole back an early symbol of the Scottish kings. It had been taken by an English... Read More

In this collection of resources we look at the origins of Christmas and the story of the Nativity, the pagan traditions that have influenced... Read More

Christmas trees—and conifers in general—have made some surprising cameos throughout U.S. history, author Trent Preszler reveals... Read More

Real or not, her story embodies the holiday’s theme of freedom. Read More

The Spanish conquest might have toppled the Aztec imperial state with startling speed, but unpicking precisely what ‘collapse’... Read More

Neanderthals 400,000 years ago were striking flints to make fires, researchers have found. Read More

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