From songs to toys to cigarette packs, presidential candidates throughout U.S. history have found creative ways to reach the public. Read More
Lyndon Johnson abruptly assumed the presidency and unveiled an agenda that scored him a smashing victory. Read More
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Ukraine is not about to seize Moscow, but its armed forces surprised many with its assault deep into Russian soil. Read More
John Trumbull may not be a name immediately associated with the American Revolution, but if biographer and historian Richard Brookhiser has... Read More
Researchers analyzed the DNA of two human skeletons found in the first permanent English settlement of the Americas. Read More
One ominous prediction says lunar eclipse in morning means ‘end of a dynasty’ Read More
The former estate of Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, is too expensive to keep and perilous to sell. No one knows quite what to... Read More
The military observance is a nationally recognized event mandated by Congress for the second Sunday of August. It is known as VJ Day. Read More
Wreaths were placed at the Malone Gates in Stratford. Read More
From birds and bats to horses and great apes, Bill Schutt's seriously fun history of teeth, Bite, explains their role in both shaping... Read More
Explore a sampling of the unusual subjects, scenes, and poses captured by photographers during the Civil War. Read More
By Ronald Anderson The 1939 war between Finland and Soviet Russia has been a minor inclusion in most histories of World War II. In terms of... Read More
The Aleutian Islands Campaign was fought from 1942-43. Read More
Wounds and mustard gas could not stop Medal of Honor recipient Lt. Orlando Petty in 1918, but they may have caught up with him in 1932. Read More
The Second Amendment. In April 1938, an Oklahoma bank robber was arrested for carrying an unregistered sawed-off shotgun across state lines.... Read More
The Wheatfield at Gettysburg was a hellish landscape. Union and Confederate soldiers from Pennsylvania, Maine, New York, Georgia, South... Read More
August 6, 1991. British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee launches a digital information revolution when he uploads the first site to the... Read More
Rudolf Diesel was a game changing inventor, though his most famous product was not used how he envisioned it. Listen in and learn about his... Read More
Sometimes, you have to get a little creative. Read More
In “The Bookshop,” Evan Friss offers lively profiles of booksellers and the stores they’ve overseen, from the 18th century... Read More
The Long Shadow of German Colonialism tells of a brutal history, and how this past lives on today. Read More
This documentary is so obsessed with its odd pigment-based premise that it can feel downright pointless. But when it takes a wider lens, it... Read More
Republicans' attacks on Tim Walz's military record mirror a 2004 smear campaign against John Kerry in some key ways. Here's how swift boating... Read More
What ‘Seeing Combat,’ ‘Stolen Valor’ and ‘Abandoned His Troops’ Actually Mean. Read More
In August 1944, the older brother of Robert and John F. Kennedy died while piloting a drone aircraft over England, leaving his younger... Read More
In the midst of the Second World War, amidst the vast expanse of the Atlantic Ocean, the German military embarked on a mission that combined... Read More
A Civil War soldier received military burial honors for the first time over the weekend, thousands of miles from where he served and nearly... Read More
Through extortion, bribery and embezzlement, mobsters made labor racketeering a major source of income after Prohibition. Read More
As Chinese migrants arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border, politicians are reviving old anti-Chinese rhetoric that has done lasting harm. Read More
Iran, historically known as Persia, is central to the history of Greater Iran, a region extending from Anatolia to the Indus river and from... Read More
Reflections on the revolution in England. Read More
Worried about its cost, Los Angeles voters required that the ’84 Olympics hold the first-ever privately financed Games Read More
When “Diver Dan” Lieb was a young boy, he noticed small, raisin to egg yolk-sized tar balls on the shore of Asbury Park. Read More
No one ever expects a summer blockbuster to fail. Read More
Charles Dickens is one of the most prominent novelists from the Victorian era and a master of constructing the most evocative literary... Read More
"Secrets of the Ice" is a glacier archaeology program, dedicated to studying glacial ice patches which contain preserved artefacts and... Read More
Iran, historically known as Persia, is central to the history of Greater Iran, a region extending from Anatolia to the Indus river and from the Caucasus to the Persian Gulf.... Read More
Through extortion, bribery and embezzlement, mobsters made labor racketeering a major source of income after Prohibition.... Read More
