Today we explore Sümeg, a town a little bit north of Lake Balaton. Although the town is noted most for its 13th-century ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Governor Bill Lee has unveiled a short film celebrating all of the contributions Tennessee has made to the United States. The short film, narrated by Dolly Parton, highlights ...

Adolf Hitler speaks at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, 1939. (Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) When news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor reached Germany, its leadership was absorbed ...

Let me take you back to the year 2000, perhaps the peak of me naively thinking things were going to be great forever. Smash Mouth's All Star was constantly on the radio. It sometimes still snowed in ...

In 431 B.C., Athens and Sparta went to war. Nearly 50 years earlier, in 480 B.C., the two cities had united to lead the Hellenic alliance that repelled a Persian invasion. In the mostly peaceful ...

Although the 'Star Wars' prequels went on to feature a much more infamous conflict, a crucial battle emerged before 'The Phantom Menace' that would shape galactic politics for a generation. Reading ...

November 11, 1918 - At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the armistice to end World War I was signed. Reports of negotiations between the U.S. and Germany led people to believe an end ...

Millions of casualties. Years of bloody attrition warfare. When Vietnamese communists toppled French colonial rule in 1954 despite massive U.S. military aid, the Geneva Accords temporarily divided ...

ISHIBA SHIGERU’S time as Japan’s prime minister is coming to an end. His party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), is in crisis: following the departure of its long-time coalition partner, it risks ...

Throughout American history, citizens have protested when they feel they have had enough of perceived injustices. Ray Marcano says the nation is nearing a breaking point due to federal actions, such ...

A version of this story ran in the September / October 2025 issue. During the spring of 2023, members of the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) gathered in El Paso for their 127th annual ...

President Harry S. Truman signing the National Security Act Amendments of 1949, which converted the National Military Establishment into a new Department of Defense. (National Archives) During a White ...