They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

The last of Hitler’s army to surrender were stationed in a desolate arctic wasteland—a key vantage point in the little-known ...

Welcome to WW2 Wayfinder! My channel is all about finding those stories from WW2 that you know and those you don't! I'll ...

I wanted to write a story about the changing perceptions of the United States among Europeans. I didn’t know that I would ...

Tithe maps and their accompanying awards can be particularly useful for studying local and community history, providing a record of the landscape and its inhabitants as they stood in the mid-19 th ...

Ordnance Survey maps are very useful to the local historian as they trace the development of buildings, settlements and landscapes across the 19 th and 20 th centuries. This continuous series of maps, ...

For some, renewable energy from solar panels is a cheap, sustainable alternative to grid-provided power. For others, it's a necessity. According to The New York Times, 600 million people in Africa do ...

80 years ago, the battle of Iwo Jima came to an end on 26 March 1945. After 36 days of fighting, nearly 7,000 US Marines had been killed and another 20,000 injured. Don is joined by historian ...

Google Maps is one of the apps that gets the most love from Google in terms of regular updates, and we've spotted another couple of upgrades rolling out to the mapping app in recent days ...

In March 2025, the U.S. Department of Defense removed a webpage reporting the history of "Golden Girls" actor Bea Arthur enlisting in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve during World War II.

Google Maps now shows parking difficulty, gas savings, and arrival time in the route overview window itself. It saves you the time and effort you'd otherwise spend digging through the app for ...

so much so that escaping death did not dissuade him from returning to one of the military's most dangerous jobs during World War II. Raley would later serve in the Korean and Vietnam wars and ...