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Should you say Myanmar or Burma? - The Economist explains
“FOLLOW local practice when a country expressly changes its name,” advises “The Economist Style Book”, the Bible of this newspaper. Among the list ... (2018)
Why Are Egypt's Treasures Housed Overseas? | History | Smithsonian Magazine
On the eve of the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum, some of the country's artifacts, from the Rosetta Stone to the bust of Nefertiti, remain ov... (2022)
The Human Family's Earliest Ancestors | Science| Smithsonian Magazine
Studies of hominid fossils, like 4.4-million-year-old "Ardi," are changing ideas about human origins (2022)
Dinosaur Unearthed in Argentina Could Be Largest Land Animal Ever | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
The skeleton is still far from complete but paleontologists say what they've found suggests the dinosaur may be more than 120 feet long (2021)
Read Amanda Gorman's Inauguration Poem, 'The Hill We Climb'
Read 'The Hill We Climb,' the inauguration poem delivered by 22-year-old LA native Amanda Gorman to celebrate the inauguration of Joe Biden (2021)
Why the Tomato Was Feared in Europe for More Than 200 Years
How the fruit got a bad rap from the beginning A nickname for the fruit was the “poison apple” because it was thought that aristocrats got sick ... (2020)
5 obscure pagan festivals around the world
Paganism is experiencing a global revival as more people are reconnecting with nature. Here are five traditional ancient celebrations around the wo... (2020)
The 1918 Flu, Masks and Lessons for the Coronavirus Pandemic - The New York Times
As the influenza pandemic swept across the United States in 1918 and 1919, masks took a role in political and cultural wars. (2020)
A long view of globalisation in short: Part 1 of 5 | VOX
This blog, and the four that will follow it, draw on Part 1 of my 2016 book, The Great Convergence.In 1957, my father published a book called Econo... (2020)
How the Horrific 1918 Flu Spread Across America | History
The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World War II combined. And it may have begun in the Unite... (2020)
The Forgotten American Explorer Who Discovered Huge Parts of Antarctica
Charles Wilkes, the Forgotten Antarctic Explorer | Science | Smithsonian Magazine It’s been 180 years since Charles Wilkes, a founder of the Smi... (2020)
Coronavirus Is Very Different From the Spanish Flu of 1918. Here’s How - New York Times
The fear is similar, but the medical reality is not. (2020)
The Best Little Museum You Never Visited in Paris | Travel | Smithsonian Magazine
The Museum of Arts and Crafts is a trove of cunning inventions (2020)
How Spices Have Made, and Unmade, Empires - The New York Times
From turmeric in Nicaragua to cardamom in Guatemala, nonnative ingredients are redefining trade routes and making unexpected connections across lands. (2019)
Why Did Greenland's Vikings Vanish? | History | Smithsonian
Newly discovered evidence is upending our understanding of how early settlers made a life on the island -- and why they suddenly disappeared (2019)
Online Map Leads Archaeologist to Maya Discovery - The New York Times
Lidar has transformed the study of ancient civilizations, but maps made with the technology are expensive. Takeshi Inomata found a great one for free. (2019)
Mapping Scotland’s Grim History of Witch-Hunting - City Lab
A new interactive map project from Edinburgh University charts the bloody wave of persecution directed at women accused of witchcraft in Scotland. (2019)
The most unusual ways many African countries got their names - QZ
Lots of Greek, Latin and Portuguese roots to many nation states created after the Scramble for Africa (2019)
The New Treasures of Pompeii | History
From gorgeous artworks to grimacing corpses, archaeologists are still uncovering the truth about life—and death—in the doomed city (2019)
An Atomic Anniversary in the City the Bomb Spared - CityLab
At the end of World War II, Kokura, Japan, escaped nuclear destruction not once, but twice. Every August, the modern city’s residents mark the anni... (2019)
How Bruce Springsteen Helped Reelect Ronald Reagan | National Review
For all of its gloomy words, and despite Springsteen's left-wing politics, “Born in the U.S.A.” became an American anthem. The song roars. It defie... (2019)
She Survived a Slave Ship, the Civil War and the Depression. Her Name Was Redoshi - The New York Times
New research suggests that Redoshi, who became a free woman in 1865, may have been the last living survivor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. (2019)
One Strange Rock (Netflix documentary 2018) - IMDb
With Will Smith, Chris Hadfield, Jerry Linenger, Mae C. Jemison. The extraordinary story of Earth and why it is special and uniquely brimming with ... (2019)
Microsoft, Facebook, trust and privacy — 2019 - Benedict Evans
There are strong parallels between organised abuse of Facebook and FB’s attempts to respond, in the last 24 months, and malware on Windows and Offi... (2019)
A History of the American Public Library - CityLab
How American Cities Got Their Libraries: A visual exploration of how a critical piece of social infrastructure came to be. (2019)
Opinion | Yes, Venezuela Is a Socialist Catastrophe - The New York Times
On Socialism - In the age of A.O.C., the lesson must be learned again. (2019)
Orban Tightens Grip Over Hungarian Courts After Chaotic Vote (2018) - Bloomberg
Law creates new top court overseen by justice minister. Opposition attempts to stop vote create tumultuous scenes (2018)
Who Was Sarah Josepha Hale? | Thanksgiving History | The Old Farmer's Almanac
Who is Sarah Josepha Hale? Give thanks to Sarah Josepha Hale for the celebration of Thanksgiving. Learn all about the history of Thanksgiving from ... (2018)
African Americans, Caribbean diaspora's return to Africa is Ghana — Quartz Africa
Right from the founding of modern Ghana Kwame Nkrumah preached pan-Africanism that transcended the shores of Africa. (2018)
A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Inequality | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The years from the end of World War II into the 1970s were ones of substantial economic growth and broadly shared prosperity. Beginning in the 1970... (2011)
Full interview: Ken Burns, The American Revolution, on "Face the Nation"
As the U.S. celebrates 249 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, CBS Evening News co-anchor John Dickerson spoke with documen... (2025)
Switzerland, Norway and Iceland REFUSE to join the EU. Why?
Switzerland, Norway, and Iceland: three nations with deep European roots that remain outside the European Union, despite their geographical and cul... (2024)
How Singapore Got So Crazy Rich
Singapore has transformed itself from a colonial trading port to a buzzing financial center in just a matter of decades. It’s been held up as an ex... (2024)
The Guianas: South America's Weirdest Countries?
At the top of South America are three small territories. Until about ten years ago, not a single road connected them to the outside world. They are... (2024)
Why Indonesia's Economy Matters and Its Unexpected Growth | Indonesian Economy
Why Indonesia's Economy Matters and Its Unexpected Growth | Indonesian Economy (2023)
Mumbai, India's Transforming MEGACITY
Mumbai, India’s Transforming MEGACITYFive transportation megaprojects are under construction throughout Mumbai, a city of 25 million. This short do... (2023)
Why West Virginia is so Poor
Why West Virginia is so Poor (2023)
Manaus: Why Brazil Built a City in the Middle of the Amazon
The Brazilian city of Manaus sits alone in the middle of the Amazon, and yet it still grew to become the seventh largest city in the country. So wh... (2023)
Why is Argentina’s economy such a mess?
Rampant inflation, a booming black market for US dollars and crippling debt - welcome to Argentina, one of the world's most dysfunctional economies... (2023)
Samsung’s Dangerous Dominance over South Korea
Samsung’s Dangerous Dominance over South Korea (2023)
Why Silicon Valley is here
Why Silicon Valley is here. One radio engineer had a plan. And it worked. (2023)
Rwanda to become the next Singapore?
Rwanda to become the next Singapore? (2023)
Bosnia: The Worst War You Never Learned About
Bosnia: The Worst War You Never Learned About (2023)
Why Portuguese Food is Hiding Everywhere
Cultures and cuisines inspire each other all around the world, especially in the last few decades. But Portugal seems to be a special case. It's a ... (2023)
Why Were Things So Terrible In the 17th Century - General Crisis Theory
Why Were Things So Terrible In the 17th Century - General Crisis Theory (2023)
German Reunification Explained
German Reunification almost didn't happen. It was opposed by nearly all world leaders. (2023)
How was Switzerland Formed? -The History of Switzerland
How was Switzerland Formed? -The History of Switzerland (2023)
TED Talk: Why societies collapse | Jared Diamond
Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond ... (2023)
Yalta Conference: Winston Churchill's CRAZY Post-War Plan For Germany
Yalta Conference: Winston Churchill's CRAZY Post-War Plan For Germany (2023)
The European Union - Summary on a Map
In this video, we trace the evolution of the European Union since the end of WWII until Brexit.-------- (2023)
World War I - Summary on a Map
Let's retrace on a map a summary of WWI, the so-called "Great War". This video summarises the period since the rise of nationalism in the middle of... (2023)
France secretly owns 14 countries, neocolonial Africa
France secretly owns 14 countries, neocolonial Africa (2023)
Why did the US give up the Panama Canal? (Short Animated Documentary)
In 1977 Jimmy Carter agreed to the United States returning the Panama Canal back to Panama by 2000. He agreed to the transfer in return for nothing... (2023)
Modern Marvels: The Construction of the Panama Canal (S1, E3) | Full Episode | History
Love Modern Marvels? Stay up to date on all of your favorite History shows at https://history.com/schedule.Chronicles one of the most incredible en... (2023)
Why 82% of Mexico is Empty
Why 82% of Mexico is Empty (2023)
Why didn't Vichy France join the Axis? (Short Animated Documentary)
When France fell to Germany (and Italy if you're feeling generous) it mostly became a client state of Berlin. Despite this France never tried to jo... (2023)
Poland Rediscovered: Kraków, Auschwitz, and Warsaw
Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide | Kraków's bubbly Baroque and cobbled charm is emerging as the exciting "next Prague." Nearby, a visit to Auschwit... (2023)
The reason Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in WWII
Japan attacked the U.S Pacific Fleet at its base at Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December 1941, but what led to that decision? Why did the Japanese a... (2023)
Basque Country - Northern Spain, Southern France
Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide | The homeland of the proud and resilient Basque people is split between France and Spain. From our San Sebastián ... (2023)
Why is South Tyrol a part of Italy and not Austria? (Short Animated Documentary)
Austria (and Austria-Hungary) used to own South Tyrol which despite being majority German-Speaking is today a part of Italy. So how did this come t... (2023)
Part 5: Can Liberal Democracy Survive in Europe? - The New York Times - 2019
In the final chapter of our series, we find that many who are rejecting the political system and values that underpin the European Union feel the s... (2019)
Part 4: Poland’s Culture Wars - The New York Times - 2019
The nationalist governing party says it’s in favor of democracy — just not the kind represented by the European Union. We look at how it is reshapi... (2019)
The threat to world trade (podcast) | The Economist on Spotify
Our cover this week warns against the damage that will be inflicted by America’s impending tariffs on steel and aluminium. For the first time in de... (2018)
#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire - Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome - Lex Fridman Podcast | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from Lex Fridman Podcast on Spotify. Gregory Aldrete is a historian specializing in ancient Rome and military history.Thank ... (2024)
Ghosts of Football Past
In anticipation of Super Bowl LII (Go Eagles), we're revisiting an old episode about the surprising history of how the game came to be. It's the en... (2023)
The Re-Militarization of Germany - The Daily | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from The Daily on Spotify. In the decades after World War II and the atrocities of the Holocaust, Germany deliberately under... (2023)
506- Monumental Diplomacy - Namibia and North Korean art - 99% Invisible | Podcast on Spotify
In downtown Windhoek, Namibia -- at the intersection of Fidel Castro Street and Robert Mugabe Avenue -- there's an imposing gold building with an a... (2023)
Florence Nightingale: Data Viz Pioneer - 99% Invisible | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale (played in this episode by her distant cous... (2021)
Lighting the Stock Market on Fire - Vox Media | Podcast
Listen to this episode from Go For Broke on Spotify. Venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs chasing big payouts helped inflate the dot-com ... (2020)
99% Invisible Podcast - Valley of the Fallen - Franco, Spain and Civil War History
About an hour northwest of Madrid, an enormous stone crucifix rises 500 feet out of a rocky mountaintop. It’s so big you can see it from miles away... (2020)
The Infantorium
There’s an old apartment building in South Minneapolis that looks totally out of place. It’s in a residential neighborhood with small bungalows and... (2020)
Return of the Yokai - Roman Mars - 99% Invisible Podcast
Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. In the US, mascots are used to pump up crowds at sporting events, or for traumat... (2020)
La Sagrada Família - 99% Invisible
The line to enter Barcelona’s most famous church often stretches around the block. La Sagrada Família, designed by Antoni Gaudí, draws so many peop... (2019)
Platforms Versus Aggregators | Exponent podcast - Episode 152
Ben and James continue to discuss the differences between platforms and aggregators, including Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Netflix, Amazon,... (2019)
a16z Podcast: How the Internet Happened – Andreessen Horowitz
In his book (and podcast), Brian McCullough chronicles the history and evolution of the internet -- from college kids in a basement and the dot-com... (2018)
The Worst Way to Start a City - 99% Invisible
The area that is now Oklahoma was once a place called Indian Territory. Beginning in the 1800s, the U.S. government designated the land in the Grea... (2018)
After the Storm: Marking 120 Years Since the U.S. Invasion of Puerto Rico | The Takeaway | WNYC Studios
Today, on the 120th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico, author Esmeralda Santiago joins The Takeaway to discuss the invasion ... (2018)
How Venezuela Struck It Poor – Foreign Policy (with audio track)
The seeds of the apparently sudden collapse of Venezuela’s once-proud oil industry were sown two decades ago. (2018)
Madeleine Albright on fascism - The Economist asks
AMERICA'S first female secretary of state on how populism can slide into fascism, what Kim Jong Il and Vladimir Putin were like in person, and what... (2018)
The Vault -Seed food bank - 99% Invisible
Svalbard is a remote Norwegian archipelago with reindeer, Arctic foxes and only around 2,500 humans — but it is also home to a vault containing see... (2018)
The Laff Box - 99% Invisible
What happened to the laugh track? For nearly five decades, it was ubiquitous, simulating in-person audience experiences in home living rooms. But b... (2018)
Airships and the Future that Never Was - 99% Invisible
They are hulking, but graceful — human-made whales that float in the air. For over a century, lighter-than-air vehicles have captured the public im... (2018)
Bear Stearns fell 10 years ago today - NPR Marketplace on Apple Podcasts
On this day in 2008, an 85-year-old investment bank became the very public face of the financial crisis. Only a $29 billion loan guarantee from the... (2018)
A match made at Bear Stearns - NPR Marketplace on Apple Podcasts
Yesterday we examined the financials that lead to the fall of Bear Stearns, and now we're going to look at the human side: A couple of unlikely Wal... (2018)
2008 Financial Crisis (10 years later): NPR Marketplace on Apple Podcasts
NPR podcast- 3/19/2018 “former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner, former president of the New... (2018)
At Hemingway's Home Outside Havana, Cuba | NPR Here & Now
At Hemingway's Home Outside Havana, An Effort To Preserve Artifacts Of His Life In Cuba Ernest Hemingway lived at Finca Vigía for two decades be... (2018)
History of Trade policy after WWII (podcast) | The New York Times on Spotify
In announcing new protections on steel and aluminum imports, President Trump said he was acting in the interest of national security. But could the... (2018)
Fordlandia (Brazil)- 99% Invisible
In the late 1920s, the Ford Motor Company bought up millions of acres of land in Brazil. They loaded boats with machinery and supplies, and shipped... (2018)
North Korea willing to talk about giving up atomic arsenal | The Daily by The New York Times
South Korea says that the North is willing to talk about giving up its atomic arsenal. What happened to the threat of nuclear war? Guest: Mark Land... (2018)
Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier | IndieBound.org
"A surreal, lyrical work of narrative nonfiction that portrays how the largest domestic oil discovery in half a century transformed a forgotten cor... (2018)
Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari
New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century New York Times Bestseller A Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Ga... (2024)
The Daughters of Yalta
"The story of the fascinating and fateful "daughter diplomacy" of Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, three glamorous young wom... (2023)
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I. Solzhenits... (2021)
Ideas: a history of thought and invention, from fire to Freud
Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics,... (2021)
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything - by David Christian
A captivating history of the universe -- from before the dawn of time through the far reaches of the distant future. Most historians study the s... (2021)
The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life (Stoic Philosophy Book 1)
The Manual book. Read 131 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Life's Missing Instruction Manual Epictetus (c. 50-135 CE) was br... (2021)
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Meditations book. Read 7,002 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Written in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a phil... (2021)
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty - by Daron Acemoğlu
The Narrow Corridor book. Read 107 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. 'A must-read. Acemoglu and Robinson are intellectual hea... (2020)
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than n... (2020)
Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor
START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel-- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies,... (2020)
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
The Complete Maus book. Read 7,135 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Combined for the first time here are Maus I: A Survivor'... (2020)
The Complete Persepolis (Persepolis, #1-4) by Marjane Satrapi
The Complete Persepolis book. Read 7,446 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-sellin... (2020)
Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World by Robert D. Kaplan
Earning the Rockies book. Read 238 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. An incisive portrait of the American landscape that show... (2020)
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
Hillbilly Elegy book. Read 25,407 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powe... (2020)
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally origi... (2019)
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the... (2019)
Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, by Sam Anderson
Oklahoma City and Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis ... (2018)
This Land Is Our Land: How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back by Ken Ilgunas
This Land Is Our Land has 47 ratings and 11 reviews. Letitia said: A thoughtful and informative argument for the idea that Americans should have th... (2018)
Man's Search for Meaning - book by Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning has 231,979 ratings and 12,175 reviews. Frank said: After I read this book, which I finished many, many years ago, I had b... (2018)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
"An alternative to the Acemoglu/Robinson thesis. Economic history owes a lot to geographic endowment; for example, Africa lacked large mammals that... (2018)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
"An alternative to the Acemoglu/Robinson thesis. Economic history owes a lot to geographic endowment; for example, Africa lacked large mammals that... (2018)
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World from Prehistory to Today by William J. Bernstein
" If the Baldwin book doesn’t convince you of the importance of trade, this account of its historical role should. It is no coincidence that the gr... (2018)
The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization by Richard Baldwin
"An essential book for understanding how modern trade works via global supply chains. An antidote to the protectionist nonsense being peddled by so... (2018)
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
"This is the story of the Great Depression as told through the lives of the central bankers who tried and failed to deal with the crisis. As one, M... (2018)
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede
When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on Sept... (2018)
Fatal Flight: The True Story of Britain's Last Great Airship by Bill Hammack
Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship—a luxury liner three and a half times the length... (2018)
The 1619 Project Curriculum
The 1619 Project, inaugurated with a special issue of The New York Times Magazine, challenges us to reframe U.S. history by marking the year when t... (2020)
Big History - Curriculum - OER Open Education Resources
years of history. free. online. awesome. Teach a mind-blowing history course that harnesses your students' natural curiosity about our world. ... (2021)
From Foraging to Food Shopping | Big History Project
What was it like for hunter-gathers? What were their favorite foods that they would go the extra mile to get their hands on? How are decisions like... (2020)