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Congress has the sole authority to declare war, but it’s only happened 11 times. Read More

By February 1778, the Continental Army had already endured several months of a harsh, cold winter at Valley... Read More

As Europe lay in ruins following the end of the Second World War, Churchill’s instinct was to punish the surviving Nazi leadership without... Read More

On March 24, 1945, the largest single-day airborne assault in history dropped 16,000 paratroopers on the eastern bank of the Rhine. It was... Read More

British troops struggled mightily for control of strategically vital Hill 112 in Normandy. Read More

It’s an ‘open secret’ that the CIA and MI6 helped topple the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh. Why can’t the British... Read More

Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address was truly prophetic—it revealed the spiritual meaning of the Civil War. Read More

What the economists and New Dealers missed after World War II—and why America flourished Read More

As bombs are dropping across the Middle East, we here at HR&R are eager to delve into the historical precedents of a region that is the... Read More

In 1204 the soldiers who had set out to retake Jerusalem in the Fourth Crusade changed course—but why? The result would change medieval... Read More

Our study has finally uncovered the circumstances surrounding the death of 77 people, mostly women and girls. Read More

The city of Akkad was the seat of the Akkadian Empire (2350/2334-2154 BCE), the first multinational political entity in the world, founded by... Read More

It is reasonable to imagine a wave of unease washing over the members of the Imperial Legislative Council in Delhi on 18 March 1919. The... Read More

While we “know” more and more about the American past, too many of our citizens are ignorant of who we are and where we came from. Read More

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

A street fight between British soldiers and American colonists turns into a bloodbath, escalating a conflict that will lead to the War of... Read More

250 years ago, Thomas Paine's Common Sense made the case for independence, but Paine knew that the harder work was figuring out how to govern... Read More

Join Greg and his guests to learn all about the life of medieval author Geoffrey Chaucer. Read More

Israel and Iran have been in almost constant conflict for nearly 50 years. Media tends to frame the violence as endemic, and inevitable... Read More

A new book chronicles the tense negotiations that secured the return of nearly 3,000 Allied civilians held by the Japanese during World War II Read More

Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity by Frank Dikötter is a balanced account of the violent years... Read More

The fourth season of hit Regency period drama Bridgerton tells the story of second son Benedict’s relationship with Sophie, a... Read More

The 2004 movie adaptation Troy retells the epic tale from Homer’s Iliad, but how historically accurate was it? Read More

The events and military buildup in the Middle East that led to the U.S. striking Iran on February 2026. Read More

The U.S. and Iran have a long history of tensions, including a CIA-led campaign to topple Iran's prime minister in 1953 and the taking of... Read More

Iran's war with the United States did not begin last week or last year. It began in 1979, when revolutionaries seized the U.S. Embassy in... Read More

The countries were united by weapons and oil until the 1979 Islamic revolution tore their friendship apart Read More

The phrase ‘Middle East’ sounds neutral, but it was born from empire. Coined by Western strategists looking out from London, it placed... Read More

On March 13, 1968, 320 gallons of VX nerve agent spilled into Skull Valley Utah. The following day, over 6,000 sheep were dead, exposing the... Read More

Free and enslaved black soldiers spilled their blood in the revolution for a chance at a freedom they might never experience. Read More

A few days ago, the President closed the longest state of the union on record with a moment of historical introspection. Referencing the two... Read More

What the economists and New Dealers missed after World War II—and why America flourished Read More

Have we ever had a more successful yet somehow forgettable king than Henry VII? A century ago, the Dictionary of National Biography could... Read More

After 18 years of living in Greece’s capital, Rebecca Hall has discovered that some of the city’s most impressive artefacts aren’t in... Read More

Incredible discoveries keep happening in the most unlikely places. Read More

A team of archaeologists in central Italy has uncovered a sealed Etruscan tomb dating back 2,600 years, what they found inside left them... Read More

The limestone oval is carved with a dark, thin rectangle on which ancient people repeatedly moved game pieces Read More

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