When the US Navy’s Great White Fleet sailed into Sydney Harbour in 1908, it was an unmistakeable signal of imperial might, a ...

The Bismarck’s terrifying effectiveness led the Royal Navy to ... British Empire. Already the largest nation in continental Europe and a potent land power, a succession of German leaders dreamed ...

"They always knew Shorty Morris because he was all over Gage County, for sure. And one guy told me he always showed up at ...

Borden finally got his day in 1911, becoming Canada's eighth prime minister after his party won 132 seats on Sep. 21. The ...

Henry Fonda for President envisions American history through the dual lives of Henry Fonda: the movie star and the real man ...

The most explosive political pamphlet in modern British history came out in 1940. Entitled Guilty Men, and co-authored by ...

Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and the country's armed forces estimate that Russia views the West as a systemic ...

Inscribed on the nameboard of an ottavino spinet (a small tabletop, or even laptop, harpsichord) dated 1710 and now in the Russell Collection of musical ...

In this special supplement we take a look at six major historical events in detail that the Argus covered in the last 145 years.

The lessons to learn are: avoid war, and the drum-beating that precedes it. And avoid technocratic utopian groupthink; avoid ideologies masquerading as science. The Nazi Hunger Plan was devised by an ...

While it’s true the Royal Navy suffered severe losses (almost twice the German losses in tonnage), the German Empire failed to achieve its primary goal of breaking the economic stranglehold the ...