Qian Xuesen, a Chinese rocket scientist and California Institute of Technology professor, worked on U.S. missile programs ...

Walther developed a stamped sheet metal submachine gun in the late 1950s, which entered production in 1963 as a simple, ...

Among others, “Stranger Things” most prominently draws from Project MKUltra and the unconfirmed Montauk Project, combining ...

David Nasaw thinks we owe Brokaw’s (and Ambrose’s and Spielberg’s) tale-telling and its legacy a second, and much more gimlet ...

More than seventy years after the conflict ended, the Korean War is referred to by many as "the Forgotten War". Sandwiched ...

Australia has plenty of room to spend more on defence. History shows that 2.9 percent of GDP is no great burden in ordinary ...

Wen-Chin Chang traces the lives of migrants, spies and guerrillas who shaped the hidden history of the China-Myanmar border region.

There are certain rules about a war. Rule number one is young men die. And rule number two is, doctors can't change rule ...

Stanley Kubrick’s film about the duplicity and incompetence of the French generals during the first world war was considered ...

A new online history project shows how anxious Americans in the 1940s and ‘50s blamed comics for juvenile delinquency and other social ills.

The 2025 revolt against process signaled the final collapse of a powerful idea that once promised to hold the country ...

The Cold War hit the movies in 1947 when the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) descended on Hollywood armed with the names of leading film folk suspected of being communists or left-wing ...