The Twentieth Century
- Science & History
World War I
A shot in Sarajevo, an alliance system built for decades, and four years of trenches that remade the century after it.
27 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
World War II
From a staged skirmish at a bridge outside Beijing to a charter signed in San Francisco, the deadliest conflict in history, every event sourced.
101 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
The Great Depression
The longest and deepest downturn in the history of the modern industrial economy, from a stock market that lost 89 percent of its value to breadlines that ran for a decade
20 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
The Russian Revolution
How three centuries of Romanov rule collapsed in a single year, and how the party that caught power in the wreckage never let go.
29 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
The Cold War
From a speech in a small Missouri gymnasium to a flag lowered over the Kremlin, the decades-long standoff that shaped the modern world, every event sourced.
33 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
The Vietnam War
From the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu to the fall of Saigon, America's longest and most divisive war, sourced document by document.
24 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
The Civil Rights Movement
How a movement built on churches, students, and lawyers dismantled legal segregation in America and split over how far nonviolence could carry it
30 events · 100% sourced