History

An immigrant with a parrot in Stockholm, a photo of a girl in Lviv, a sculpture of Alexander the Great in Skopje, a memorial ceremony for the 50th ...

Six thousand years ago, there were no cities on the planet. Today, more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas, and that number i...

Prior to 9/11, the United States had been carrying out small-scale covert operations in Afghanistan, ostensibly in cooperation, although often in d...

In 1971 former Cold War hard-liner Daniel Ellsberg made history by releasing the Pentagon Papers - a 7,000-page top-secret study of U.S. decision-m...

Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House o...

Titanic: First Accounts compiles first hand accounts, testimonies, and letters by notable Titanic survivors, including Archibald Gracie, Lawrence B...