Call of Duty: WW2's Historical Advisor Marty Morgan on Bringing the War to Life
Call of Duty is top best-selling first-person shooter series based on real events, but lately it has veered into futuristic sci-fi country. Call of Duty: World War II is an attempt to go back to the g...
6 Nov 20171h 22min
The Codpiece—The Worst Fashion Trend in History
A wealthy man in the 1500s wore a large flap on the front of his trousers to accentuate his "credentials," which looked like an exterior athletic cup. How did this bizarre fashion trend take off, why ...
3 Nov 20176min
Why Almost No Medieval Peasant Cottages Survive Today
Archeological findings have led to breakthroughs in our understand of the Roman and ancient Near Eastern worlds, but little survives from the 500s-900s. Why weren't medieval buildings made to last? ...
2 Nov 20177min
How a Nikita Khruschev Mistranslation Threatened Nuclear War
When Nikita Khruschev pounded his shoe on a podium, declaring "We will bury you!" many feared imminent nuclear war. Turns out a better translation of his original Russian completely changes the meanin...
1 Nov 20177min
British Girl, Nazi German POW—A Love Story
Were there any British women who fell in love with German POWs living in England in the mid-1940s? Despite the extreme cultural taboo, the answer is yes. Love always finds a way. TO HELP OUT THE S...
31 Okt 20179min
Assassin's Creed's Resident Historian Maxime Durand on Mixing Fact with Fiction
Like it or not, far more millennials will learn about Renaissance and medieval history through Assassin's Creed than they ever will through a history book. That can be dispiriting on the one hand —the...
30 Okt 201757min
Cruel and Unusual (Medieval) Punishment
An inquisitor thirsty for a confession had plenty of medieval tools of torture at his disposal: the iron maiden, the judas cradle, the rack, or the brazen bull. Turns out many of these devices are fab...
27 Okt 201713min
The Easter Uprising of 1916
Learn about one of the most important events in modern Irish history. On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, a group of Irish nationalists proclaimed the establishment of the Irish Republic. They, along wi...
26 Okt 20179min
