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The climax of Gettysburg is immortalized at a low stone wall on Cemetery Ridge. Read More

Shoved by the Germans into the English Channel in 1940, British survivors tell their story of heartbreak and heroism. Read More

The Doolittle Raid saw 16 US B-25 bombers hit Tokyo and other targets in Japan on 18 April 1942. This was the first time that... Read More

Congress forbade living persons from appearing on paper currency in 1866, after an unpopular Treasury Department official put himself on the... Read More

How the 1930s built America’s economic might Read More

Editor’s note: This is the fifth article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects... Read More

Troops and military supplies traversed the Mother Road throughout the early 1940s. Read More

No 10 North is historic – but not unprecedented. Medieval York shows England has governed from more than one centre before. Read More

After a fragment was found in 1943 and dated to 500 B.C., the Nok terra-cotta sculptures shook up the Eurocentric academic consensus that no... Read More

Would St Augustine have considered the US attack on Iran a just war? The pope and the vice president are split on the matter. Read More

Amid mounting tensions between white settlers and the Shoshone, Union soldiers killed an estimated 250 to 500 Shoshone. Today, the Indigenous... Read More

Lost crowns, funeral scepters, and medieval coins from the 1200s and 1400s resurfaced in Poland and Lithuania, rewriting what we know about... Read More

Long before "vanilla" meant bland, the bean's fandom spanned Mesoamerican elites to European courts. But it owes its ubiquity to a... Read More

The Wright brothers changed the world in 1903, when they successfully took to the skies and achieved the first powered, sustained and... Read More

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

Route 66 turns 100 this year. It's considered America’s most nostalgic road trip. With wide open road, sunsets that fill the whole sky,... Read More

The ancient civilisation which thrived in the Sahara Desert over 2,000 years ago. Read More

How did a kingdom of palaces, privilege and powdered wigs collapse into revolution? What turned hunger into uprising?In this first episode of... Read More

On May 27, 1905, the Russian and Japanese fleets faced off in the Tsushima Strait during the Russo-Japanese War. It is the first modern naval... Read More

On 24 June 1941, a heavily guarded train slipped secretly into the dense, swampy forests of East Prussia. Two days prior, Adolf Hitler had... Read More

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world.... Read More

The earliest surviving fragments of the epic poem—the subject of Christopher Nolan's latest Hollywood blockbuster—date back more than... Read More

The 56 men who signed their names to the Declaration of Independence knew that if the British prevailed, they’d be tried for treason.... Read More

Why land, more than just memorials, deepens the etch of history. Read More

The Confederate attack during the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg overran the Union III Corps and, in one place, reached the crest of... Read More

On July 10, 1943, the Allied invasion of Sicily — codenamed Operation Husky — put more assault troops ashore on its first day than the... Read More

In the Old Waxhaw Presbyterian Church in the backwoods along the border between North and South Carolina, Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson wiped... Read More

The women who answered lonely pioneers' newspaper ads didn't just find husbands—they helped build frontier communities. Read More

The Homestead Act was a policy enacted by the United States government on 20 May 1862 to encourage westward expansion. Passed during... Read More

A new study suggests linguistic diversity reached its peak between 1000 B.C.E. and 1000 C.E. before declining Read More

Planetaria are model objects that display stars, planets, or other celestial bodies and their movement. This blog post explores the different... Read More

How the 1930s built America’s economic might Read More

Archaeologists are investigating the site of a Roman military camp located near the town of Šurany in southwestern Slovakia.... Read More

The Roman Empire had two main populations: gods and humans. By its end, there was only one god left. How, and why, did he reign supreme? Read More

Gladiators really were sex symbols—just not in the way one might expect. Read More

The D-Day landing beaches in Normandy were added to UNESCO's World Heritage List Sunday. The 80-kilometre stretch of coastline in northwest... Read More

How much US history do you remember? Read More

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