China relationship is not a structural inevitability, but a result of political choices made by governments across the ...

Authors Alexandra Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst capture the first month of World War I, blending military events with the ...

The wealthiest college athletic conference ever to exist was founded in 1896, at the Chicago Loop's still-standing Palmer House hotel. From those quasi-humble origins sprang a behemoth—an 18-team ...

World War 1 created a wave of devastating facial injuries that traditional medicine was unprepared to treat. Surgeons like Harold Gillies pioneered new reconstructive techniques that laid the ...

Behind the familiar history of World War II lies a forgotten front, lined with unsung heroes in the battlefields of China whose stories have largely gone untold. Do you have questions about the ...

Often a power cut would act like a bonus as everyone else in the family would leave everything they were doing aside and join ...

A young Bosnian Serb had one plan to free his people from the monarchy of Austria-Hungary: kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand, ...

President Donald Trump recently hinted that he may revert the Department of Defense back to the Department of War, an old title dating back to 1789. “It used to be called the Department of War and it ...

Vicente Cifuentes and Arnaud De La Croix, trans. from the French by Amanda Axsom and Peter Law. Abrams ComicArts, $29.99 (296p) ISBN 978-1-4197-8449-1 French historian De La Croix makes his ...

Still reeling from the horrors of World War 1, France vowed never to be vulnerable to German invasion again. This determination led to the creation of the Maginot Line, one of the most imposing ...

On Oct. 26, 1942, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier the USS Hornet was sunk during pitched fighting in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. Strapped to the deck of the carrier was a farming tractor, ...

Last Updated on September 5, 2025 by Matt Staff History moves on the choices of people, not just dates. The figures of World ...