The Order of the Knights of the Temple, or Templars as they went down in history, was for almost 200 years one of the most important military and economic forces of its time.

Submarines were used for the first time in large numbers and played a significant strategic role, during World War I. At that time the first concepts on submarines’ operational tactics and missions began formulating.

Many times during the Cold War the world was on the brink of a nuclear holocaust. This is one of those stories.

The legend of King Arthur is one of the most characteristic myths of medieval England.

25 years ago, nearly a million people were massacred in Rwanda. At the time, it went largely unreported.

On 20 March 1944, Gen. William J. Donovan, director of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), passed on to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt a memorandum

There are many historical figures whose lives, actions or deaths are covered by a veil of mystery.

When 28 civilians were killed in Athens, it wasn’t the Nazis who were to blame, it was the British.

Pantheon, a project developed by the Macro Connections group at the MIT University Media Lab that collected and analyzed data on historical

On February 10, 1962, two men stepped on to opposite ends of the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin.