Navajo code talker who helped allies win Second World War dies aged 107 ~humanities.history Article 539 words 30 votes
German Navy Enigma machine systems were different to the Army, making them tougher to crack. In this video, James Grime discusses the differences and what Alan Turing achieved in breaking the code. ~humanities.history Video 23:05 8 votes
Government without states (how to raise a tribal army in pre-Roman Europe, part II) ~humanities.history Article 5364 words 8 votes
Divers find remains of Finnish WWII plane that was shot down by Moscow with a US diplomat aboard ~humanities.history Article 1277 words 18 votes
"Sword breakers" were rare and we don't know much about them. How were they used and what were they really for? Two experienced rapier fencers experiment with one to discover more about them. ~humanities.history Video 10:11 11 votes
Free Companies: The age of mercenary companies ~humanities.history Video 18:17, published Apr 14 2024 7 votes
B-17 Flying Fortress | Units of History ~humanities.history Video 26:03, published Apr 20 2024 6 votes
The Museum of Science and Industry abruptly closed for a day last week to allow it to move “military artifacts from archival storage” ~humanities.history Article 794 words, published Apr 9 2024 26 votes
In the years after World War II, neutral, peace-loving Sweden embarked on an ambitious plan – build its own atomic bomb ~humanities.history Article 16 votes
World War II ‘rumor clinics’ helped America battle wild gossip ~humanities.history Article 1944 words 7 votes
Salvage of the century: The lost WWII gold of HMS Edinburgh ~humanities.history Video 41:51, published Feb 29 2024 10 votes
Packages seized by the Royal Navy from a Faroese cargo ship bound for Denmark during the Napoleonic Wars opened – previously hidden away in the National Archives ~humanities.history Article 482 words 9 votes
How Finland survived a 1,000,000+ Soviet invasion (1939-1940) ~humanities.history Video 46:49 13 votes
Bellevue, WA police responded to a call from a US Air Force museum that said a man had offered to donate a Cold War-era missile stored in his late neighbor’s garage ~humanities.history Article 570 words 12 votes
Sweden's most popular tourist attraction, a 17th-century vessel that foundered minutes after launch, needs another financial rescue ~humanities.history Article 660 words 11 votes
The first US Army Christmas: Washington and the Hessians ~humanities.history Article 2240 words 8 votes
WWII rescue buoys - Secret 'floating hotels' of the English Channel ~humanities.history Video 26:59 4 votes
Rise of Napoleon's Old Guard (1789-1803) (part 1) | Units of History ~humanities.history Video 23:10 9 votes
Sinking the Blücher: How an outdated fort stopped the WWII Invasion of Norway ~humanities.history Video 34:48 13 votes
Wreckage likely belonging to a British submarine that sank during World War II was found off the coast of Norway ~humanities.history Article 403 words 13 votes
Why the Early Modern Period is the most underrated era in European history ~humanities.history Video 16:38 5 votes
Gilleleje remembers one of the greatest collective acts of resistance of World War II – its role in the flight and escape of over 7,000 Danish Jews ~humanities.history Article 1474 words 9 votes
Norway remembers its wartime debt to Dumfries – special relationship being marked with the unveiling of a one-and-a-half tonne stone of friendship ~humanities.history Article 604 words 3 votes
A wrong turn in fog off the California coast led to the largest peacetime disaster in American naval history ~humanities.history Article 12 124 words, published Aug 22 2023 8 votes
True size of a Spartan army - The real source of its strength ~humanities.history Video 36:35 9 votes
The Marian reforms weren't a thing ~humanities.history Article 8060 words, published Jun 30 2023 15 votes
Scenes from a fallen empire: Abandoned Russian bases dot Mongolia’s border ~humanities.history Article 1314 words 16 votes
Some historians say that the last US Revolutionary War battle was fought in India ~humanities.history Article 14 votes
The campaign in the desert of North Africa in 1940-1943 mapped ~humanities.history Video 21:02 7 votes
Eighty year anniversary of a speed record build of a WW2 bomber ~humanities.history Article 416 words 7 votes
Cold War British RMP video shown to travellers before driving from West Germany to West Berlin through the Soviet East German corridor ~humanities.history Video 16:09, published Oct 29 2019 8 votes
How well suited is Sweden's Saab JAS 39 Gripen and their dispersal operations in NATO's air forces? ~humanities.history Video 20:30, published Jun 8 2023 3 votes
Is a highlander shield bulletproof? Targe vs flintlock musket and pistol - Historical myth busting ~humanities.history Video 41:47 5 votes
Top-secret atomic bunker has opened to the public in Denmark – built to withstand a nuclear attack, it's now an astonishing subterranean museum ~humanities.history Article 1431 words 6 votes
Why did Denmark gain land after WW1 despite being neutral? ~humanities.history Video 3:23, published Apr 25 2022 4 votes
US pilot shot down four Soviet MiGs in thirty minutes – and kept it a secret for fifty years ~humanities.history Article 1508 words 8 votes
Crippling Hitler's navy – the battle that knocked out 50% of the Kriegsmarine's destroyers in Norway ~humanities.history Video 11:42, published Dec 25 2022 4 votes
Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered the long-lost sister ship of the 17th-century warship Vasa ~humanities.history Article 463 words 7 votes