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The intellectual architect of the American Founding Read More

When was the last time you saw a teenage boy with a book in his hand? A phone, alas, probably all the time. But a book? Unless a teacher... Read More

Episode 14: Just Enough History American series Read More

The founding generation in America was not of one mind. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson differed on crucial ideas, but exemplify the capacity... Read More

'Pressure' star Andrew Scott reads a D-Day letter as USO hopes the public can help locate surviving members of the Weber family as part of... Read More

America’s bloodiest day began with heavy fighting that ravaged a previously innocuous cornfield in western Maryland. Read More

President Obama showed that a meticulous process means everything Read More

A private pilot named Kenneth Arnold kicked off a worldwide craze when he claimed he saw a string of shiny saucers fly past Mount Rainier in... Read More

A group of Black divers recently visited the site where the British slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 326 years ago. Read More

The pre-wedding send-off traces back to ancient customs. Read More

Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed a sealed packet of the epic poem resting atop a Roman-era mummy, suggesting they may have been used as... Read More

While in theory, a pope couldn’t be removed during the Middle Ages, late medieval Europe still found ways to challenge, undermine – and... Read More

Joan of Arc was put on trial twice, once before and once after her death. The records made at these trials are often used as evidence of... Read More

The search for the source of the Nile River was one of the last great geographical mysteries of 19th-century European exploration.... Read More

The Thucydides' Trap examines the risk of conflict when a rising power challenges an established one, from Ancient Greece to modern US-China. Read More

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

Greed, Lust, Pride, Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath! You might be surprised to learn the true history of the Seven Deadly Sins doesn't start in... Read More

A glimpse into life during the Great Depression from the people that lived it. Read More

Join Greg and his guests to learn all about medicine in Tudor and Stuart England. Read More

On today’s Saturday Matinee, we consider the Louisiana Purchase- how it occurred and what would have happened if this significant deal... Read More

Katja Hoyer’s new book uses the town of Weimar to humanize an often-overlooked chapter of German history: the brief, tragic life of the... Read More

In This Land Is Your Land, the Yale historian Beverly Gage travels round US landmarks, from Emmett Till’s bulletproof memorial to the... Read More

JMC Resident Historian Elliott Drago sat down with JMC network member Jeffrey Rogg to discuss his book, The Spy and the State: The History of... Read More

Texas Rangers vs. the bad boys, and girls, of Borger Read More

The spring holiday, established in 1950, recognizes active and former U.S. military members. Read More

No, the Continental Congress did not first vote for independence on July 4, 1776. Seven weeks earlier, on May 15,... Read More

Thomas Jefferson was one of many of his contemporaries who drafted documents that declared, proclaimed, or otherwise argued for American... Read More

At 2 a.m. in 1916, a TNT blast in New York Harbor registered as a 5.5 quake, shook Philadelphia, and changed the Statue of Liberty. Read More

As the nation marks its 250th anniversary, Revolutionary-era sites on the East Coast highlight the nation’s birth. The Western states,... Read More

Decades before the Ayatollah, even before the shah, early Americans found themselves enchanted with Iranian culture, politics, and history. Read More

In May 1917, three Portuguese children declared that they had seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary in a meadow. In 1992, a witness told the... Read More

When widespread vaccination was introduced there were objections – some justified, some not. Read More

When companies taught language and citizenship Read More

The world before World War II is so foreign and yet so, so familiar. Read More

The discovery of diamonds in 1867 in Griqualand ultimately transformed the entire region of Southern Africa. Huge European financial... Read More

Despite the deadliness of the disease, it was possible to recover from plague, and medieval chroniclers mention the possibility –... Read More

The many paths through which Buddhim flowed across the region. Read More

The discovery of old bones could finally reveal the real life story of d'Artagnan—who has long been cast in the shadow of Alexandre Dumas's... Read More

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