Russia's timeline in World War II is confusing enough, but its role in World War I was even more so. While most European countries...  ...es were fighting each other, Russia had their own civil war , which lasted years and split the country into pa...  ...pposing them had th...

_Dr. Conteh (white polo, third from right) stands...  ...rd from right) stands with his staff at the Lassa Ward . Ross Donaldson (far right) would later write up...  ...rite up the experience in a book._In the midst of civil strife, the Lassa fever research program run by t...  ...s—heck, history’s&m...

Sometimes we look at history as distinct eras, wit...  ..., eras, and people. We tend think of the American Civil War as ancient history, and the Civil Rights movement as recent -probably because of th...  ...ed by some of the same people. The last surviving Civil War veteran d...

The 1960's were known for a lot of things...  ...s, the first Super Bowl, the Kennedy Camelot, The Civil Rights Act, the War on Poverty, the Vietnam War - and Sean Connery as James Bond. So pervasive wa...

While there were already artistic images of St. Ni...  ...ebrating Christmas with Union soldiers during the Civil War . He's playing with a toy effigy of Jefferson Davi...  ...s in total. Unsurprisingly, the drawings from the Civil War often fell solidly in the realm of propaganda; Na...  ...f propaganda; Nast s...

Civil War in history class is usually the Reconstruction er...  ...a. What happened to the individuals who drove the war ? Lincoln was assassinated, his successor Andrew J...  ...was not the case- at least immediately after the war .Alexander Stephens, the vice president of the Co...

The Civil War Photo Sleuth is on a mission to identify all the...  ...l the people whose pictures were taken during the Civil War era. They have developed a new facial recognition...  ...on. The process of identifying unknown figures in Civil War -era photographs require...

Psychiatry in the 19th century was filled with qua...  ...mental illness rose quickly during and after the Civil War , and among the new crop of doctors was Dr. Silas...

The evolution of a food preservation makes one won...  ...ury, but weren't common in the US until after the Civil War . People didn't quite trust the process, with good...

Martha Gellhorn was a war correspondent reporting from the Spanish Civil War in 1939 when she fell in with another corresponde...  ...soon met wife #4, and Gellhorn continued covering wars up to her 80s. Read the story of Martha Gellhorn'...