Feb. 3, 1945, the battle for the capital of the Philippines began between Allied Forces and Imperial Japan. The 1st Cavalry ...

The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia were forced to flee, but soon found themselves cut off ...

Sometimes fiction is a little bit truer than reality,” Wijeratne remarks early in our conversation on the sidelines of the Galle Literary Festival (GLF). It’s a statement that seems paradoxical at ...

Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant was shocked by the paralysis of local authorities after the Battle of Solferino, and then ...

Were you taught about the Spartans in school history? Sparta was a small Greek state in 500BCE, situated in the south of ...

An elementary school student says a Michigan school district violated her First Amendment rights when administrators forced her to remove a hat featuring an assault rifle.

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Educators use games like Assassin's Creed and board games to teach history, biology, and climate change effectively.

Little did Leonidas know that over 2,500 years later, "Molon Lave" would be used as a global marketing tool -from weapons to ...

It was in 480 BC during the second Persian invasion of Greece, when King Leonidas of Sparta ahead of the legendary Battle of Thermopylae responded by the phrase "Molon Lave" ('Come and Take Them' in ...