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.

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.

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

Winding through the Southern Alps in New Zealand, the TranzAlpine is lauded as one of the world’s greatest rail journeys, but few know that its well-worn tracks also trace the path of an ancestral ...

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

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

Here’s everything you need to know about Andrew and other royals getting the boot from “The Firm,” including the historical context.

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 ...