It's August in the year 410. The eternal city of R...  ...advice. His newly published book, How to Survive History : How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, G...  ...eii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History 's Deadliest Catastrophes, has specific, detailed...  ...pecific, detailed advice...

Historically speaking, sports originate with military training. Some sports are more pure expressions of that origin than others, but few sports could compete with actual grenade throwing for practical applications durin...

These two street signs face each other, about 5...  ...os. He appears to be a published expert on London geography and the Twitter thread shares other examples of B...

Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues famously invented the World Wide Web in 1993 at CERN--the European Organization for Nuclear Research. CERN's facilities are in Switzerland so it's commonly said that the Internet was in...

Riley Stearns, a filmmaker, wrote, directed, and p...  ...to Pistols a Dusk by Barbara Holland, which is a history of dueling in Western civilization. Holland's tex...

At nearly 200 pages in length, the Treaty of Versa...  ...rom the Germans.Desplat proceeds through the long history of this particular skull from 1898 until its deli...  ...sue of the skull is a microcosm of the diplomatic history of so many eras: World War I, the interwar period...

This plot of land, which measures just over a square mile, might be called the Pennsylvania Wedge had the boundary dispute between that state and Delaware not ended in Delaware's favor. But the Delaware flag defiantly fl...

The welbike- a British motorcycle fitted in an a...  ...g WWII. pic.twitter.com/pDukGVIhrJ— Lost in history (@lostinhist0ry) August 1, 2022 During World War...

The Barter Theatre building in Abingdon, Virginia dates back to at least 1876. But it got its current name during the Great Depression. When it reopened its doors under new management in 1933, guests could purchase ticke...

It was 1941 and the war was not going well for the Allies. The Nazis were advancing on multiple fronts, including deep into the unprepared Soviet Union. Britain was now locked into an uneasy but necessary friendship with...