USA 250: The 1781 Map of Monmouth — British Blueprint of a Lost Frontier

The 1781 map of Monmouth County reveals more than just a historic landscape. It was actually a British Revolutionary War spy ...

Ghosts of the Gulf: The Unsung Revolutionary War Campaign

Far from the main action, the Spanish fought to reclaim Southern territory from the British, tying up their forces and aiding ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Bayeux Tapestry Takes a Journey for a Fresh Perspective as the British Museum Prepares to Lay the Masterpiece Out Flat

After spending centuries in France, the 1,000-year-old tapestry depicting the Norman Conquest of England is traveling to its ...
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Dublin parents voice concerns over high school boundary proposals

DUBLIN, Ohio — Two public feedback sessions in Dublin grew heated Monday night as parents, for the first time, saw three proposed high school boundary maps that could reshape where thousands of ...
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The forgotten platoon that delayed Hitler’s last offensive

On the first day of the Battle of the Bulge, Lieutenant Lyle Bouck and a small intelligence and reconnaissance platoon of the ...
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First Persian Empire mapped

This video maps the First Persian Empire — the Achaemenid Empire (c. 550–330 BC). We trace how Cyrus the Great united Persia ...