In the US, the American Revolution is taught as a...  ...al context, the American Revolution was largely a war about trade and economic influence—not ideo...  ...nd to accomplish that, they were willing to go to war with their biggest competitor—Great Britain...  ...ch, Spanish and Dutch governments,...

Wartime means brainstorming new ideas for technology to d...  ...with no wheels the Germans used through two world wars .During World War I, the German army outfitted its troops with "ped...  ...ons, so therefore not as dumb as it looked. Other wart...

Hollywood has to take shortcuts to tell an epic war story, or we'd never get films into the theaters....  ...in a battle easily get the wrong idea about what war is like if what they know comes from watching mov...  ...tching movies. For example, the trenches of World War I ar...

We all make mistakes. I make mistakes in my work every day, as many of you know. Some jobs demand more precisions than others, and some have expensive or dangerous risks. If you are working with space ships or military c...

While it’s very much oversimplified, it appe...  ...area of history you study, the processes lead to war . Yeah, war can sometimes lead to better conditions or correc...

The following article is from Uncle John’s F...  ...ader.Historians often disagree on whether certain wars should be considered one continuing conflict or a...  ...d one continuing conflict or a series of separate wars . But that doesn’t stop them from compiling...  ...o;t stop them from compiling li...

Treaty negotiations may lead to world peace, but fighting with sticks is so much more fun! Sigh. You can read the history of the world in this simple story from John McNamee at Pie Comic, or you can just enjoy the sillin...

Cut Video talked to several veterans: Lonnie, Lanc...  ...nce, Josh, Dan, Jonathan, and Qassim, about their wartime experiences, especially what it’s like to k...

The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo...  ...ohn's Canoramic Bathroom Reader.To help win World War II, the Allies used every skill they could come u...  ...s to replenish supplies and troops for the desert war raging in North Africa. That made it a prime targ...  ...fer little information about the...

During the drawdown of the Vietnam War , I recall feeling surreal about the U.S. not bein...  ...ecall feeling surreal about the U.S. not being at war , because, while we weren’t involved in Viet...  ...sure felt like we were. That was an in-your-face war , with film foot...