Our hosts have enviable jobs. An 8th grade fan recently took notice of this and wrote: I am VERY interested in finding a career in history. I would love to go around the country solving the unsolved ...

Spotlight on a vintage WWI cartridge and what it reveals about the earliest days of the struggle against communist Russia. Students share the stories behind a favorite object or family artifact and ...

It’s been a full ten years since the first season of HBO’s True Detective, which feels at once like an exceptionally long time and like no time at all. Time is, it has been said, a flat circle, but it ...

For centuries, people have marked graves and commemorated the dead. Stones were originally used by prehistoric man to keep wild animals from digging up the gravesite. Today cemetery markers are ...

Willie Nelson, Tanya Tucker and Loretta Lynn asked the public for help in solving the murder of David "Skull" Schulman.

In this lesson, students learn how the life of an enslaved person changed from the Antebellum period through Emancipation. They analyze primary source documents in order to create a timeline of an ...

The project began when three like-minded local historians – Leanna Russell, Moira Concannon and Lesley Simpson – realised that comparatively little had been published about the history of their home ...

Foyle's War, the detective drama from Alex Rider creator and Midsomer Murders writer Anthony Horowitz, is now available for even more people to discover/rewatch as it has been added to Netflix today.

When 15-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux realised a photo of him at the Louvre on the day of the crown jewels heist had ...

A history of aerobiology would normally be a book that would have little interest beyond the science community. But in “Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breath,” Carl Zimmer transforms the ...

The 11th season premiere of "History Detectives," which has been reformatted to focus on one iconic mystery per episode, opens with a look at the April 27, 1865, explosion of the Mississippi steamboat ...

New and veteran gamers alike—at least the ones with PS3s—have been waiting for tomorrow with bated breath: Heavy Rain finally drops...and makes a splash...like ...