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James Conway was among 12 men chosen to be part of a secret mission known as Operation Frankton. Read More

The Allied effort to supply the forces in Asia via 'The Hump' over the Himalayas was a monumental task. Read More

On August 23, 1944, a test flight over the village of Freckleton, located in northwest England, ended in disaster, claiming the lives of 61... Read More

The pre-tax environment that unleashed capital, growth, innovation, and opportunity Read More

What does it mean to be an American? How do we define America? Some say it’s an idea. Others say a place. Still more say a people. In... Read More

JMC Resident Historian Elliott Drago sat down with JMC network member Jacob Bruggeman to discuss his work on the intertwined histories of... Read More

Ancient Romans blamed the deadly 'breath of Cerberus' for the mysterious deaths at Pluto’s Gate. Read More

The most famous Scottish cannibal was Sawney Bean, a 16th-century man who, with his wife and children, supposedly killed and ate travellers... Read More

Warriors in red cloaks battling against the odds at Thermopylae is the image usually associated with Sparta. But a richer and more... Read More

The Fertile Crescent, often called the 'cradle of civilization', is the region in the Middle East that curves like a quarter-moon shape... Read More

Divers in Florida are seeking sunken slave ships for connections to history. Read More

Weeks without rain have caused Italy's Tiber River to fall to unusually low levels, revealing the remains of an ancient Roman bridge near the... Read More

How the 30-cent island diner special became a culinary pride of Hawai'i. Read More

It's a party in the USA... Read More

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

Join Greg and his guests to learn about the infamous pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Read More

This year, K-pop Demon Hunters picked up a couple of Oscars, the pop group BTS made its triumphant return to sold out crowds, and K-pop took... Read More

On today’s Saturday Matinee, we study The Portrait of Madame X- a famous 19th century painting featuring a mysteriously alluring... Read More

Linford Fisher and Lorén Spears reveal how Indigenous slavery and land dispossession went hand-in-hand with the American Revolution. Read More

The transatlantic telegraph cable helped usher in the information age, a new book shows Read More

Behaving well as a host or visitor wasn’t just a matter of etiquette for the ancient Greeks – it was a sacred duty. Hilary... Read More

Carter Vaughn Findley’s "Dreams of Empire" charts the endurance, diversity, achievements, and eventual dissolution of a state that bound... Read More

At a time when universities are shuttering their presses, Grove City College has launched Faith & Freedom Press through publisher... Read More

The abolition of the death penalty in Britain is often seen as a symbol of the permissive 1960s. Instead, it was the result of a... Read More

Civil War historiography is heavily anchored in the mechanics of battlefield command, yet the ultimate outcome of the conflict was frequently... Read More

The U.S. 29th Infantry Division was formed in July 1917, three months after America entered World War I. Somewhat surprisingly, it was made... Read More

The Mitsubishi A6M Zero-sen is the most famous Japanese fighter of the Second World War (1939-45). Read More

In 1911, a US professor claimed he found the secret mountain stronghold of the last Incan king. 53 years later, a new explorer proved him... Read More

The torpedoing of the German ocean liner *Wilhelm Gustloff* in 1945 led to the deaths of some 9,000 men, women and ch... Read More

Newly uncovered documents reveal the story of David Maltbie, who relayed intelligence to the patriots in 1776, narrowly avoiding execution as... Read More

Fragments of a 4,500 year-old dress were stored in a museum’s basement for decades until one researcher pieced it back together,... Read More

An Iron Age hillfort in rural Devon has emerged as a possible site of one of the most significant Viking defeats in Anglo-Saxon England,... Read More

Benjamin Franklin's son William was buried in London following his death in 1813, more than three decades after he was forced to leave... Read More

An effort is underway to preserve the Witness Tree, a 300-year-old oak that stood witness to a Revolutionary War battle. Read More

Falling water levels in the Danube River have uncovered Nazi warships in Serbia and a military motorcycle in Hungary amid a drought affecting... Read More

An empire used one weapon to survive seven centuries of attacks. The formula behind it vanished, and modern science still can't crack it. Read More

Few names are more synonymous with frontier mythology than Davy Crockett. Read More