Category: History

Under Fire and Under Water

Epic wildfire. Devastating drought. Cataclysmic flooding. Extreme weather in the wake of climate change threatens to turn the American West

How did a simple design error cause one of the great disasters of the 1980s – the collapse of the

How pathogenic microbes have been an intimate part of human history from the beginning – and how our deadliest germs

For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome

John Adams told Thomas Jefferson that “history is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine.” Thomas Edison called him

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tried by War, James M. McPherson is acclaimed as the greatest living Civil War historian. In this

Best-selling author Winston Groom tells the complex story of how Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin – the three

From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history

Isis and Osiris have never trusted their brother Set. When Set hosts a huge banquet for Osiris, Isis is worried.