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"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
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We've been telling the Alamo story wrong for nearly 200 years. Now it's time to correct the record ~humanities.history Article published Jun 9 2021 20 votes
Avenging Varus and the loss at Teutoburg Forest - Battle of the Long Bridges (15 AD) ~humanities.history Video 16:47 6 votes
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The plan to kill Osama bin Laden—from the spycraft to the assault to its bizarre political backdrop—as told by the people in the room ~humanities.history Article 16 894 words, published Apr 30 2021 11 votes
Why measuring the impact of Lend-Lease is so difficult ~humanities.history Video 12:18, published Aug 14 2018 4 votes
Pacific Series part 1/5: Why attacking Pearl Harbor was the least bad option Japan had ~humanities.history Video 10:05, published Feb 22 2019 6 votes
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The final days and dissolution of Austria-Hungary ~humanities.history Video 16:48, published Jun 4 2020 5 votes
The US has never taken responsibility for spraying Agent Orange over Laos during the Vietnam War. Generations of ethnic minorities have endured the consequences. ~humanities.history Article 12 votes
José Epita Mbomo: The Spanish electrician who sabotaged the Nazis ~humanities.history Article 3019 words, published Mar 1 2021 7 votes
American special operations forces have become a major military player - and maybe a substitute for strategic thinking ~humanities.history Article 5074 words 7 votes
An Irish soldier describes World War One (1988) ~humanities.history Video 11:24, published Jan 28 2021 6 votes
Animated history: 1943 - 1945 Invasion of Italy (Video collage) ~humanities.history Video 33:19, published Jan 15 2021 5 votes
The long history of warrior turtles, from ancient myth to warships to teenage mutants ~humanities.history Article 1812 words, published Feb 11 2021 9 votes
How Israel built a nuclear program right under the Americans' noses ~humanities.history Article 4849 words 7 votes
The tale of a World War II British submarine that shot down an enemy plane with a torpedo ~humanities.history Article 1585 words 7 votes
The father of modern warfare – the military reforms of Gustavus Adolphus' changed the face of European warfare ~humanities.history Video 21:36, published Dec 13 2020 7 votes
How did the Qing dynasty collapse? The Xinhai revolution explained ~humanities.history Video 14:27, published Jun 18 2019 3 votes
Janine de Greef, Belgian who helped smuggle downed Allied airmen to safety during World War II, dies at 95 ~humanities.history Article 1253 words 7 votes