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A young Bosnian Serb had one plan to free his people from the monarchy of Austria-Hungary: kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the crown.... Read More

Pressured to pry General Joseph E. Johnston from Kennesaw Mountain in June 1864, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman suffered a bloody repulse. Read More

The U.S.’s unique position on hate speech regulation stems from more than 100 years of history. Read More

Surgeons trying to eliminate pain eventually arrived at anaesthesia – but not before a contest with older, more unusual therapies. Why... Read More

Vlad III Dracula, the brutal warlord and inspiration for Bram Stoker’s genre-defining vampire, has long held a reputation as medieval... Read More

What took the FBI months in 1968 now takes hours in 2025, as technology reshapes the balance between fugitives and the law. Read More

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“Everything points to the catastrophic end of a military operation.” Yikes. Read More

Decades after a skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province, researchers said they suspect a much earlier and more complex human... Read More

In his lifetime, the first king of England was renowned throughout Europe. But over the centuries, he has been sidelined by history. Read More

A new exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts spotlights 40 women who found fame in the Low Countries between 1600 and 1750,... Read More

This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago. But how do we know Proto-Indo-European must have... Read More

From Versailles to Paris, discover the palaces, gardens and prisons that trace the rise and fall of the ill-fated queen Read More

Behind the modern fairground is a 1960s vision of counterculture. 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 history of the city of Alexandria. Read More

The U.S. - Mexico border, according to a video on the official White House website, is very quiet: nothing but tires crunching on gravel and... Read More

A young Abraham Lincoln meets his rival on Bloody Island to face off in a life-or-death duel. Read More

What extraordinary events saw the French – already on the brink of defeat – take on the formerly formidable German army in a... Read More

The book is divided into three parts, each comprising several chapters. Part One deals with the Ptolemaic dynasty's foundation and the... Read More

In “McNamara at War,” the brothers William and Philip Taubman probe the mind of a Harvard Business School technocrat who tried to... Read More

Truth and fiction swirl like a recently poured pint of the ‘black stuff’ in Netflix’s new drama House of Guinness. Here, we... Read More

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The most notable snipers in U.S. military history aren’t just legends – they include real soldiers, sailors and Marines who stood... Read More

Dwight D. Eisenhower was president when Bernie Armstrong last got inside a P-51 Mustang and “danced the skies on laughter-silvered... Read More

Lt. Col. George Hardy enlisted in the Air Force in 1944 and was the youngest Red Tail fighter pilot to fly a combat sortie over Europe. Read More

As colonists faced tough odds in the Revolutionary War, America's first diplomat worked his charm to win France's vital backing. Read More

Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln had been personal and political opponents for 20 years when they clashed for the Illinois Senate seat in... Read More

Germany’s waters alone are home to roughly 1.6 million tons of discarded weapons, mostly from the two world wars in the 20th century. Read More

Fifty years after its horrors, we know that the press helped to turn public opinion against the conflict. That’s because war is hell, and... Read More

The release of government documents related to the Kennedy assassination will keep scholars busy for years, but will we learn anything new? Read More

Boston archaeologists have been excavating parts of Charlestown to learn more about what life was like before British troops burned down the... Read More

Visitors at the President's House in Philadelphia look at a display about what life was like for enslaved people at the residence used by... Read More

Mass at the Church of Jesus the Nazarene rarely lures enough congregants to fill more than a few pews. Trash piles up outside under broken... Read More

Kathleen Martínez has spent two decades searching for the Egyptian queen’s resting place – her determination may have paid... Read More

From a mosaic of flip-flops in Sicily to Cicero's possible sauna, new discoveries prove that bathing has always been about more than getting... Read More

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