The Battle of Coronel, fought on November 1, 1914, marked the Royal Navy’s first defeat in 102 years. Far from European ...

Researchers think the camp was built during the second century C.E. Stretching across 22 acres, it was identified using a ...

The Battle of Kursk was a catastrophic defeat for Germany; the Wehrmacht suffered around 200,000 casualties and lost nearly 700 tanks and 1,000 aircraft. These losses were irreplaceable.

The Cold War prompted many bizarre plans—one British idea involved using live chickens to maintain nuclear landmines.

Here’s some background information about World War I, also known as the First World War and the Great War, which lasted from 1914 to 1918. Causes of World War I The assassination of Archduke Franz ...

The American Historical Society of Germans from Russia is holding its annual convention in Lincoln at the end of July.

A dispatch from Vienna, where students as young as 15 gain skills, earn salaries, and help keep youth unemployment among the ...

Schlitz was a billion-dollar empire battling Budweiser to be No. 1. Then a bribery scandal—and a lot of foul, sludgy ...

William Thompson, a man rarely if ever mentioned in American history books, became the first commissioned colonel in the ...

At the decentralised foodie hub of Noblessner in Estonian's capital Tallinn, we find the legacy of Black Bread, the only two ...

In February 1847, 19-year-old Susan Magoffin survived a trek through the Jornada del Muerto (the dead man’s journey), despite ...

William Thompson, a man rarely if ever mentioned in American history books, became the first commissioned colonel in ...