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A Soldier Poet, Baring His Soul

Siegfried Sassoon’s World War I Diaries Are Published Online

In words spoken hours before 9-11, hear Bill Clinton say why he could have, but didn’t, kill bin Laden

He made the comment reportedly during a Sept. 10 meeting with business leaders in Australia.

Groundbreaking research maps cultural history

The team of net­work sci­en­tists used the birth and death loca­tions of more than 150,000 intel­lec­tuals to map their mobility pat­terns in order to iden­tify the major cul­tural cen­ters on the two con­ti­nents over two millennia.

7 insane problems outlined in the new Afghan reconstruction report

Afghanistan is the biggest reconstruction project the US has ever undertaken, consuming more than $104 billion so far.

Ex-President George W. Bush Authors Book About His Father

The younger Bush, 68, also writes about his father’s influence on his own life, including his decision to enter politics.

Shipwreck Found Under World Trade Center Traced Back To Colonial Era Philadelphia

In July 2010 construction workers halted the backhoes when they uncovered something unexpected just south of where the Twin Towers once stood.

Europe notes 100th anniversary of World War I

A total of 76 current nations played a role in the 1914-1918 war.

Theodore Van Kirk, 93, Enola Gay Navigator, Dies

Theodore (Dutch) Van Kirk took the plane’s bearings, using a hand-held sextant to guide with the stars.

President Warren Harding’s Love Letters Open to the Public

Taken as a whole, the correspondence sheds light on a man in love on the eve of his presidency and a country on the brink of World War I.

The Secret to Early Jewish Success: Literacy

When Roman soldiers destroyed Jerusalem’s Second Temple in AD 70, they unknowingly planted the seeds of centuries of Jewish flourishing.

On the Hundredth Anniversary of the Start of World War I, Remembering the Part Animals Played

Horses, dogs, pigeons—even glowworms—were crucial participants in the war to end all wars.

Without World War I, what would literature look like today?

Our book shelves would look very different.

Bob Dallek in the NYT gives a rave review of John Dean's history of Watergate cover-up

by Robert Dallek

A review of Dean's new book, "The Nixon Defense."

ISIS is destroying both Shia and Sunni shrines and buildings in Mosul

by Lamia Al Gailani Werr

"After the fundamentalists destroyed all the Shia mosques in Mosul and the other towns, they have now turned to the Sunni shrines."

According To U.S. Big Data, We Won The Vietnam War

The strategy had been driven by a simple hypothesis, proven by history: Wars were won by inflicting damage on an enemy until they surrendered.

Earth Is In The Early Days Of A New Mass-Extinction Event, Researchers Warn

And humans are solely to blame

‘Google must not be left to censor history’ – Wikipedia founder

The power to “censor history” should not be left in Google’s hands.

The most important battle you've probably never heard of

Exactly 800 years ago on Sunday, in a field next to what is now the airport of Lille, a battle was fought which determined the history of England.

CONFIRMED: the Shrine of Jonah/Mosque of Yunus (Nineveh, Mosul, Iraq) has been destroyed

The many photographs all correspond with each other. This has happened.

East Germany's Blood Art: No Justice for Victims of Regime's Treasure Hunt

"They didn't even leave me a chair to sit on."