Writers and historians including Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory revisit the last days of Anne Boleyn, who in 1536 became the first queen in British history to be executed.

Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about o...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our hist...

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 1...

It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. ...

The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's pro...

Today, few people's clothes attract as much attention as the royal family, but this is not a modern-...

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...

A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a definin...

In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emp...

Norman Mailer and a panel of feminists — Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Dia...

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

An excellent comprehensive look at all the music that came out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati "Roc...

1969. Man lands on the moon. Half a million strong at Woodstock....and Led Zeppelin perform in the g...

In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for contro...

It is the year 2546. Corporations rule the world, and an agent is on a secret mission to explore the...

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...