The broadening Iran war has ricocheted across the region and beyond. Nearly every country in the Middle East is sustaining ...

On March 24, 1945, the largest single-day airborne assault in history dropped 16,000 paratroopers on the eastern bank of the ...

There’s an island fortress in the Hudson River near Beacon with a history so wild, you’ll wonder why nobody’s made a movie ...

T he American-Israeli campaign against Iran is not abating. Since February 28th the two countries have bombed a range of targets, including Iran’s leadership, military infrastru ...

Victor Lovsin beat the odds both times he survived being captured by Nazi forces during WWII. Vesna Lovsin, Victor’s daughter, told the story of her ...

James Cheshire receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. The late 1940s and early 1950s were a golden age for polar mapmaking in the US. Major magazines such as Time, Life and ...

In a study published in the Journal of Historical Geography, researchers Dr. Chris McCarthy and his colleagues have documented, for the first time, the Great Mongolian Road, a major yet understudied ...

The ultimate zombie-killing crossover is on the horizon as “World War Z” has announced the release date for its upcoming collaboration with AMC’s “The Walking Dead.” Based on Paramount’s “World War Z” ...

The contemporary drug war across the Americas no longer resembles a state-versus-cartel clash but a networked conflict in which market forces, violence and geopolitics reciprocally reinforce one ...

Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...

This story originally published 70 years to the day after the Pearl Harbor attack as part of a Tulsa World series to collect and preserve personal stories of area World War II veterans. Arles Cole ...

Five hundred years ago, a Bible accidentally printed with a backwards map of the Holy Land sparked a revolution in how people imagined geography, borders, and even nationhood. Despite the blunder, the ...