This animated map shows how humans migrated across the globe
It's tough to know what happened on Earth thousands of years before anyone started writing anything down. But thanks to the amazing work of anthropologists and paleontologists like those working on...
View ArticleNew York City's Financial District has a gory, haunted past
New York's Financial District is the economic center of the entire US — but it's also one of the city's most historically gruesome, gory, and bloody neighborhoods.Although its cobblestone streets might...
View ArticleYou can thank the military for the McDonald’s drive-thru
Now that we can thank McDonald’s restaurants for serving breakfast all day, we should take the time to thank fatigue-clad troops for not having to leave our cars to get it.Despite the Army and Air...
View ArticleThe man who held off 6 enemy tanks and waves of infantry for an hour by...
Today I found out about Audie Murphy, the most decorated U.S. World War II veteran.Murphy was born on June 20, 1925 in Texas. His family was extremely poor, partially due to having twelve young mouths...
View ArticleIn time for Halloween: 12 of history's greatest epitaphs
Your epitaph — the text written on a headstone — is the last thing you can say to the world. Sometimes it's a matter of getting your own account of your life out there. Richard Nixon, disgraced by...
View ArticleIn the mid-1980s, the Soviet Union had a computer program that helped it...
This week, the National Security Archive at George Washington University published a newly declassified 1990 US intelligence-community study that revealed terrifying details about the 1983 US-Soviet...
View ArticleAmerican history is littered with major events that were influenced by alcohol
Alcohol played a big role in some important moments in America history. Author Susan Cheever shares her favorites from her new book "Drinking in America: Our Secret History."Produced by Eames...
View ArticleMeet the world's deadliest female sniper who terrorized Hitler's Nazi army
In early 1941, Lyudmila Pavlichenko was studying history at Kiev University, but within a year, she had become one of the best snipers of all time, credited with 309 confirmed kills, 36 of which were...
View ArticleOne of the grandest structures of the ancient world could be reborn
Until an earthquake in 226 BCE knocked it down, the Colossus of Rhodes, a 98-foot-high iron and bronze statue of the Greek god Helios, sat near the harbor of Rhodes, Greece, for 54 years. Now, a plan...
View ArticleThe Japanese created stealthy submarine aircraft carriers during WWII
After masterminding the attacks at Pearl Harbor, Japanese Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto knew that his country’s dominance of the Pacific Ocean would not last against the U.S.’s industrial might.He began...
View Article31 beautiful vintage photos that show what New York City looked like in the...
Amateur photographer Charles W. Cushman traveled extensively in the US and abroad from 1938 to 1969, capturing beautiful portraits of everyday life. His archive has been donated to and maintained by...
View ArticleThe story behind dazzle ships, the Navy's wildest-ever paint job
In 1917, while Britain's Royal Navy was plagued by Germany's formidable U-boat offensive, visual artist Norman Wilkinson realized that traditional camouflages wouldn't help British ships avoid the...
View ArticleIt's been 100 years since one of the biggest game-changers in military...
On November 5, 1915, a plane was launched from a ship by catapult for the first time in history.And, despite the prevailing ideas at the time that naval aviation was an outlandish endeavor, the flight...
View ArticleThe Palace Siege: It's been 30 years since militants launched a devastating...
On Wednesday, November 6, 1985, members of the Colombian guerrilla group M19, or the April 19 movement, stormed Colombia’s Palace of Justice and held all 25 of the country's Supreme Court justices, and...
View ArticleWe visited the site of the century-old burial vaults recently discovered in...
Archaeologists were working at the site of two burial vaults on Nov. 6, just days after construction workers discovered two chambers of human bones on Nov. 3 and 4 along the eastern edge of New York...
View ArticleHere's just how crazy things got on the night the Berlin Wall came down
In this excerpt from The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, Frederick Taylor, a German historian, describes the moments leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall by weaving together history, archival...
View ArticleThe woman in today's Google Doodle was a Hollywood star who designed...
Today marks the 101st birthday of Hedy Lamarr, a scientific legend, a classic Hollywood actress, and an all-around babe.She designed a communications system that would help the Allies win WWII and...
View ArticleHappy birthday, Marine Corps! Here are 37 powerful pictures of the Corps...
The Marine Corps, which turned 240 years old on Tuesday, has served a role in every conflict in US history.That's because the Marines operate on sea, air, and land — unlike the other service branches —...
View ArticleA modern-day 'Indiana Jones' just got $1 million to protect ancient sites...
Miles above the Earth, Sarah Parcak can see history hidden in the dirt.She then uses that knowledge, gathered using infrared imagery from satellites, to protect ancient sites, shielding them from...
View ArticleThe income tax started as a conservative political stunt
Republicans have used taxes as a talking point for decades, and Tuesday night's debate was no different.Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson elaborated on his idea of a flat tax rate based on the biblical...
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