The exciting story of the splitting of the atom, a scientific breakthrough of incalculable importance that ushered in the nuclear age, has a dark side: the many events in which people were exposed to radiation, both intentionally and by accident.

In China, there exists an astonishing place. A burial ground to rival Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, w...

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...

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape t...

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

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

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

Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as...

The biggest trial of Nazi war crimes ever: 360 witnesses in 183 days of trial - a stunning and gripp...

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

Hitler's biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, onl...

In a quiet forest, a sign warns of radiation hazard. “Is this the past or the future?” muses the mas...

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

Was the Christ Story stolen from other, older religions? Theologian Dr Robert Beckford investigates ...

Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood i...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...