Explore the geopolitical tensions leading up to World War 1! This short explains how Serbia, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, and the United Kingdom set the stage for global conflict in 1914.

From historic Everest summits to Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee research, National Geographic magazine and its famed covers have ...

There are quite a few classic epic movies set during World War I, including Doctor Zhivago, All Quiet on the Western Front, ...

In 1974, the U.S. tried staying on daylight saving time all year. The result was darker mornings and public panic.

Never before had death affected so many people at once, and taken so many young men in the prime of their life.

The Soviet Union detonated the most powerful nuclear weapon in the history of humankind, the Tsar Bomba, on October 30, 1961.

Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.

In a television interview, Asif claimed that India had “penetrated” the Afghan Taliban leadership. That, he insisted, was the ...

A lyrical meditation on Titash Ekti Nodir Naam, where Mallabarman and Ghatak intertwine rivers, memory, and Bengal’s ...

Letters written on Aug. 15, 1916, by two Australian soldiers serving in France during World War I have been discovered more than a century later. One of the letter-writers survived the war; the other ...