EXCLUSIVE: The Rest Is History, one of the biggest podcasts in the world, is set to be adapted for television. The audio series, which is hosted by historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, comes ...

Fights over how we tell our national story go back more than a century — and have a great deal to teach us about our current divisions. Credit...Illustration by Derek Brahney Supported by By Jake ...

The election of 1800 didn't invent the idea of a peaceful transition of power from one set of ideals to another, but it did engrave the United States into history as a democracy. Illustration by ...

Damage to the Philippine Legislative Building as a result of World War II. At the time, the Philippines was a U.S. colony. Courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux Picture a map of the United States and ...

The work of Hu Jie, who has made more than 30 movies, is little known even in China. The release of “Spark” and “The Observer” should make him better known abroad. By Ian Johnson For more than 20 ...

The past eight decades have been the longest period without a war between great powers since the Roman Empire. This anomalous era of extended peace came after two catastrophic wars, each of which was ...