Today in History for Jan. 23: In AD 638, the Islamic calendar was created and first used. In 1492, the Jewish Pentateuch was ...

Quentin Tarantino has revealed the Monty Python scene that made him feel genuinely sick, and it wasn’t the famously gory ...

March 25: “Hurrah, and vote for suffrage! Don’t keep them in doubt.” —Febb Burn, a 47-year-old widow, in a letter to her son, ...

British Army officers bumble through military planning with spectacular incompetence, their upper-class privilege and ...

In January 1945, in the snow of Holzheim, Belgium, First Sergeant Leonard Funk walks into the worst possible mistake—90 armed ...