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Why Do Filmmakers Call The Battle of Algiers the Greatest War Movie Ever?: Watch It Free Online

The Oldest Known Depiction of Human Sexuality: The Turin Papyrus (Circa 1150 B.C.E.)

The Unlikely Friendship of Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla

Inside Disney’s Long, Frustrated Quest to Create Artificial Human Beings: A Six-Hour Documentary

What Makes Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon Perhaps the Most Revolutionary Painting of the 20th Century?

Thanksgiving Menu at the Plaza Hotel in New York City (1899)

Watch Winsor McCay’s The Sinking of the Lusitania, the First Major Animated Propaganda Film (1918)

200 Ansel Adams Photographs Expose the Rigors of Life in Japanese Internment Camps During WW II

Take a 2‑Hour Walking Tour Through New York City: Architects Reveal the Secrets Behind Its Most Iconic Buildings

The Fascinating History of Tarot Card Decks: From the Renaissance to the Modern Day

Why Your Vision of Ancient Rome Is All Wrong, According to Historian Mary Beard

How Paris Became Paris: The Story Behind Its Iconic Squares, Bridges, Monuments & Boulevards

The First Photograph of a Human Being: A Photo Taken by Louis Daguerre in 1838

Beautiful, Color Photographs of Paris Taken a Century Ago—at the Beginning of World War I & the End of La Belle Époque

The Ambitious Engineering Behind the Golden Gate Bridge

The Roman Empire’s Vast Road Network—186,000 Miles of It—Has Just Been Mapped in a New Digital Atlas

The Roman Empire’s Vast Road Network—186,000 Miles of It—Has Just Been Mapped in a New Digital Atlas

Leonardo da Vinci’s Visionary Inventions Rendered in 3D Animation: Helicopters, Robotic Knights, The First Ever Diving Suit & More

A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens

Discover the Oldest Book of the Americas: A Close Look at the Astronomical Maya Codex of Mexico

How Marlon Brando Changed Acting: Inside a Scene from On the Waterfront

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The 1957 “Spaghetti-Grows-on-Trees” Hoax: One of TV’s First April Fools’ Day Pranks

When Marcel Duchamp Drew a Mustache & Goatee on the Mona Lisa (1919)

A Tour of a Utopian Home Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Presented by His Last Living Client

How “Reliable” Systems Almost Started a Nuclear War

You Can Now See the Parthenon Without Scaffolding for the First Time in 200 Years

The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe’s Death: 19 Theories on What Caused the Poet’s Demise

Lección desde la Nube: Caída en AWS (us-east-1) el 19-20 de octubre de 2025

How Did The World Get So Ugly?: Then Versus Now

The 135 Movies You Must See to Understand Cinema

When a Salvador Dalí Sketch Was Stolen from Rikers Island Prison (2003)

The First Electric Guitar: Behold the 1931 “Frying Pan”

The Genius Engineering of Roman Aqueducts

The Night When Bob Dylan Went Electric: Watch Him Play “Maggie’s Farm” at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965

Why Real Biblical Angels Are Creepy, Beastly, and Hardly Angelic

Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like

Know the History of AI: Build Your Own Rule-Based Expert System in C#

Know the History of AI: Build Your Own Rule-Based Expert System in C#

Mark Twain Wrote the First Book Ever Written With a Typewriter

The Aberdeen Bestiary, One of the Great Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Now Digitized in High Resolution & Made Available Online

Einstein’s Divorce Letters and the Cruel List of Marital Demands He Imposed on His First Wife

The Foot-Licking Demons & Other Strange Things in a 1921 Illustrated Manuscript from Iran

History Could Teach Us a Lot About Today’s Algorithms

The Gilded Age: A Free Historical Documentary That Helps Make Sense of Our Own Fraught Times

A Tour of the World in 1900: See Restored Footage Showing Life in New York, London, India, Japan, China & Beyond

When CBS Canceled The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour for Criticizing the American Establishment and the Vietnam War (1969)

How to Write in Cuneiform, the Oldest Writing System in the World: A Short Introduction

A 107-Year-Old Irish Farmer Reflects on the Changes He’s Seen During His Life (1965)

40,000-Year-Old Symbols Found in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language

How a 19th Century Scientist Created Incredibly Realistic 3D Models of the Moon (1874)

When Michelangelo Created Artistic Designs for Military Fortifications to Protect Florence (1529–1530)

Opera updates with a redesigned History, new Themes, and an experimental feature

Everything That Went Wrong During The Wizard of Oz’s Seriously Troubled Production

Leonardo Da Vinci’s To-Do List from 1490: The Plan of a Renaissance Man

The Horrifying Paintings of Francis Bacon

The Technology That Brought Down Medieval Castles and Changed the Middle Ages

How Erik Satie Invented Modern Music: A Visual Explanation

The Advanced Technology of Ancient Rome: Automatic Doors, Water Clocks, Vending Machines & More

How Egon Schiele Made Enduring Art from His Troubled Life and Times