The year is 1720, and Swedish forces have landed on the Baltic coast. Their target is St. Petersburg, but Peter the Great has ...

The Swedish Empire rose rapidly in the 17th century through military dominance and regional power but its fall was just as dramatic. This video explores how costly wars, overextension, and the Great ...

Why was the greatest and most climactic battle of the Great Northern War, the Battle of Poltova, one of the most important in all European history? What drove Charles XII of Sweden to invade ...

The Great Northern War: The Battle for the Baltic (Part 1) Dominic and Tom discuss Peter the Great, the early stages of the tumultuous Great Northern War, and his scandalous marriage to a serving ...

World War I began on July 28, 1914, after Austria and Hungary declared war on Serbia. This came just a month after Archduke ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says no one in Gaza is starving: “There is no policy of starvation in Gaza, and ...

July 26 marks 80 years since the 1945 Potsdam Declaration, in which the United States, Britain and China called on Japan to ...

The historian Asa Briggs apparently aimed to write 1,500 publishable words a day and liked to be working on at least three ...

Some people, who made a mark on the country’s history, have stayed in perhaps the most unlikely of Yorkshire villages. This ...

Jeremiah, in overwhelming grief, watched his dire warnings come to pass. He shifted from being a prophet of doom to a ...

U.N. officials, aid groups and experts have warned for months that Palestinians in Gaza are on the brink of famine without ...

Moscow’s wartime oil adaptations in the wake of the war reveal a great deal about building resilient energy systems.