Warfare History
Ken Burns: America Knew About the Holocaust and Chose to Look Away
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein's six-hour PBS documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust argues that Americans were never…
Best American Revolution Documentaries — and Why It Took So Long to Make Them
The Civil War got Ken Burns and 40 million viewers; the Revolution got classroom reels. Here's why the war that…
Real Monuments Men Raced to Save 5 Million Nazi-Stolen Artworks
In a booby-trapped Austrian salt mine, a small Allied unit of curators and art historians made a desperate bid to…
EU4 Mongol Empire: What It Nails—and the Black Death It Ignores
Europa Universalis IV faithfully models the Mongol Empire's fragmentation and nomadic tension, but ignores the empire's most world-altering legacy: catapulting…
Best Korean War Books to Read Before You Forget It Was Fought
The Korean War killed 36,000 Americans and millions of others, yet vanished from collective memory. These essential history books —…
Zheng He’s Treasure Fleet Ruled the Seas—Then Ming China Burned It
The Ming dynasty built the largest navy in history under Zheng He, then deliberately destroyed it—banning ocean trade and suppressing…
Ken Burns’ Vietnam War Doc Unearthed Footage Buried for 50 Years
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's 18-hour PBS Vietnam War documentary spent a decade recovering military film, classified footage, and Vietnamese…
Korean War Armistice at 70+: Why the Ceasefire Was Never a Peace Treaty
On July 27, 1953, generals signed a document that silenced the guns on the Korean peninsula — but an armistice…
American Revolution Trivia: 8 Verified Facts Stranger Than Fiction
From Benedict Arnold's legless monument at Saratoga to Continental Congress pamphlets poaching Hessian mercenaries in German, the real American Revolution…
Halifax Explosion 1917: The Accidental Blast That Leveled a City
When two ships collided in Halifax Harbour on December 6, 1917, a French freighter packed with 2,500 tonnes of high…