Decades-old photography from the U-2 spy program now offers a time machine to see traces of the historical and ancient past ~humanities.history Article 2192 words 11 votes
There may never ever be another man as powerful as Stanislav Petrov ~humanities.history Video 41:38, published Jul 7 2019 7 votes
Military reforms of Diocletian - Roman Imperial army documentary ~humanities.history Video 18:33, published Jan 30 2020 4 votes
The deadliest disaster in maritime history happened seventy-five years ago this week: Thousands of German citizens and soldiers fleeing the Soviet army died when the “Wilhelm Gustloff” sank ~humanities.history Article 1924 words 4 votes
On the 200th anniversary of his death, George III’s collection of more than 3,000 military maps, views and prints in the Royal Collection have been made publicly available online ~humanities.history Article 433 words 5 votes
US torpedo troubles during World War II ~humanities.history Article 3945 words, published Jun 12 2006 7 votes
Sweden dodged a bullet by not building this nuclear submarine – the reactor had an insufficient amount of nuclear shielding ~humanities.history Article 532 words 5 votes
How this abandoned mining town in Greenland helped win World War II ~humanities.history Article 1308 words 5 votes
Wars of the Roses 1455-1487 - English Civil Wars ~humanities.history Video 53:21, published Dec 24 2019 4 votes
Soviets in Afhghanistan: The invasion that changed everything ~humanities.history Video 16:02, published Sep 24 2019 5 votes
Roman Castra - How legionaries built and lived in their fortresses ~humanities.history Video 19:00 3 votes
America’s dark history of killing its own troops with cluster munitions ~humanities.history Article 5998 words 8 votes
Finland marks 80th anniversary of brutal conflict with the Soviet Union ~humanities.history Link 3 votes
The history of the Ohio-class guided missile submarine and its future as a drone-carrier platform ~humanities.history Article 8640 words 7 votes
Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered two wrecks believed to be 17th-century warships – one of which is likely to be the sister ship of the Vasa ~humanities.history Article 359 words, published Nov 8 2019 5 votes
How a cargo ship helped win WW2: The Liberty Ship story ~humanities.history Video 7:21, published Nov 15 2017 4 votes
The extraordinary story of Joy Whitehead - female soldier of the first world war ~humanities.history Article 1600 words, published Nov 5 2019 8 votes
How Britain dishonoured its African first world war dead ~humanities.history Article 1289 words 7 votes
How skeletons of WWI ships came to rest in the Potomac ~humanities.history Article 2163 words, published Oct 18 2019 4 votes
Medieval Fighting Techniques - Mounted vs Foot (Lance vs Polearm & Sword) ~humanities.history Video 36:41 4 votes
The secret mission to seize Nazi map data: How a covert US Army intelligence unit canvassed war-torn Europe, capturing intelligence with incalculable strategic value ~humanities.history Article 4641 words 9 votes
The 1963 sinking of the Thresher killed 129 men and became history’s deadliest submarine disaster ~humanities.history Article 1516 words 5 votes
Down to seven vets, Pearl Harbor survivors' group in California holds final meeting ~humanities.history Article 1461 words 15 votes
Denmark honours Bernhard Arp Sindberg who rescued thousands of Chinese during the Japanese imperial army's orgy of violence in Nanjing in 1937 ~humanities.history Article 1005 words 6 votes
Navajo code talkers: The last of the living WWII heroes share their stories ~humanities.history Article 926 words, published Nov 27 2017 11 votes
Sixty years since rising from the deep – Swedish warship Vasa's preservation still a major challenge ~humanities.history Link 4 votes
The actress who left the stage to become an American Civil War spy ~humanities.history Article 1648 words 8 votes
Camp Century – Secret Cold War base shifts through Greenland ice ~humanities.history Article 559 words 6 votes
Forgotten History: Musée des Plans-Reliefs ~humanities.history Video 7:32, published Jul 18 2019 8 votes
Norway reportedly detects radioactive leakage from Soviet submarine ‘Komsomolets’ in Arctic ~humanities.history Article 422 words 7 votes
Varangians - Elite bodyguards of the Byzantine emperors ~humanities.history Video 15:49, published Jun 13 2019 6 votes
The invention that won World War II: Patented in 1944, the Higgins boat gave the Allies the advantage in amphibious assaults ~humanities.history Article 1329 words 6 votes
A Japanese American newspaper chronicles the ‘searing’ history of immigrant incarceration ~humanities.history Article 1410 words 8 votes
One of the few surviving heroes of D-Day shares his story: Army medic Ray Lambert, now 98, landed with the first assault wave on Omaha Beach ~humanities.history Article 2034 words 9 votes
Atomic veterans were silenced for fifty Years. Now, they’re talking. ~humanities.history Article 765 words, published May 27 2019 8 votes
The contested Confederate roots of Memorial Day: More than two dozen US cities claim to the be the “birthplace of Memorial Day" ~humanities.history Article 747 words 7 votes