Six weeks after his bloody repulse at the Battle of Aspern-Essling, Napoleon led his reinforced army back across the Danube. The resulting clash with Archduke Charles's Austrian army was the biggest and bloodiest battle yet seen in...

Episode 2: An Unexpected Journey – With five servicing missions, upgraded instruments, and new ways of operating, Hubble is not the same telescope it was when it launched....

The 21st century is experiencing an Asianization of politics, business, and culture. - Our theories about the world, even about history or the geopolitics of the present, tend to be shaped by Anglo perspectives of the Western industrial...

Researchers in Berlin have recently deciphered the second-century map of Germania by Ptolemy. Ptolemy, an ancient Greek Egyptian scholar, created the first map that used longitudinal and latitudinal lines, but his depiction of Germania...

On 13 September 1759, on the Plains of Abraham near the city of Quebec, an outnumbered British army fought a battle that would change the history of the world: the Battle of Quebec. For the past three years, Britain and France were...

MOT 1938: MEIN KAMPF: Hitler's book opened to title page / Airplanes flying in sky / German Nazi flag flying w/ snow covered mountains BG / Young adult German soldiers standing in line / Nazi Banners blowing in wind / CU Pages of Mein...

Daniel Ziblatt is Professor of Government at Harvard University and a faculty associate at Harvard's Minda De Gunzburg Center for European Studies. Ziblatt's teaching and resarch is in comparative politics, with a focus on...

Throughout Japanese history, the Japanese have believed in the divine ancestry of the imperial family as one of Japan’s unique virtues. Explore the ancient legend about the divinity of the imperial family beginning with the sun goddess...

In this episode, Jordan and Charlie discuss the economic benefits of regulating mercury pollution. Researchers at MIT were able to translate the estimated health impacts of mercury pollution for US populations into economic benefits.

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The frontier thesis changed the way Americans viewed their history irreparably. Its unique approach became the beginning of a tradition of American exceptionalism. ------------------------------------------------------------ more videos:...