We humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, so naturally, certain things have slipped through the cracks ...

a professor emeritus of contemporary Irish history at Trinity College Dublin. “That’s how it is when I’m in a library or archive. If you want to get a ground-level view of history, this is the kind of ...

On Easter Sunday 1945, Harry Stewart Jr. and his wingman, Walter Manning, were part of a mission to escort a B-24 Liberator bombing mission over St. Polten, Austria. They were both members of the ...

Yet the reality is that unspeakable horrors recur again and again in human history, as in Europe more recently, when the extermination of Muslims and Croats was deployed by Slobodan Milošević ...

The Vital de Oliveira had been lost to history for 81 years until a fisherman's net became tangled in one of the ship's guns. This incredible shipwreck was found some 40 miles off shore from the ...

"In combat, they would just charge forward from the tree line, like in a World War II movie," Ihorovych recalled. Assaults during World War II often had high casualty rates. He said his troops ...

In famine-stricken Sudan, soup kitchens that feed hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in a war zone have shut down. In Thailand, war refugees with life-threatening diseases have been turned ...

In the 1840s, Irish peasants came to Canada in vast numbers ... (As portrayed by Robert Haley in Canada: A People's History) Year after year, the potato crop failed in Ireland.

The Raid on Cabanatuan, comprised of the 6th Ranger Battalion, commanded by Lt. Col. Henry A. Mucci, Sixth U.S. Army, Alamo ...

Improving the UK-EU trade deal could kick-start ailing economies across the Continent, Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds has said. Mr Thomas-Symonds, the minister responsible for leadin ...

Have you been paying attention to current events recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right. Compiled by Jeremy Engle Is there a goal you’d like to pursue by doing ...