Go West Across America with Lewis & Clark It is 1804. U.S. President Thomas Jefferson has asked Meriwether Lewis to lead an expedition across western North America—unknown territory for all but Indians. The goals: map the rivers, make friends with natives, open the West to trade, and look for a Northwest Passage (an easy water [...]
Sherman’s March In the presidential election of 1860, a split in Democratic party virtually assured Republican Abraham Lincoln’s election, convincing the South to make a bid for independence rather than face political encirclement. Explore General Sherman’s March through the south during the Civil War, with an interactive map featuring battle and routes, from History.com. View [...]
Seeing History in ‘Mad Men’ The AMC period drama “Mad Men,” which returns for its fourth season on July 25, has consistently woven episodes around actual historical events. Matthew Weiner, the series creator, has said that he wanted to take a classic 1950s archetype, embodied by the character Don Draper, through the upheaval of the [...]
Combat Zone: Inchon and Hue Follow the course of battle in two of the 20th Century’s most famous close-combat actions: Battle of Inchon (Korean War) Battle of Hue (Vietnam War) View the multimedia storytelling project
The Fall of the Wall A web documentary by Anne Mailiet and Brice Boussouar, Tandem Production Berlin, Jerome Pidoux/Studio Multimedia France 24. View the interactive web documentary
A Year at War Some 30,000 American soldiers are taking part in the Afghanistan surge. Here are the stories of the men and women of First Battalion, 87th Infantry of the 10th Mountain Division. Over the next year, The New York Times will follow their journey. View the multimedia storytelling project
Not Forgotten: Looking back at the Korean War 60 YEARS AGO | On June 25, 1950, North Korean forces, trained and armed by the Soviets, invaded the South to “liberate’’ it. The invaders overwhelmed the U.S.-trained South Korean troops and quickly captured the capital of Seoul. Despite the infusion of U.S. and other United Nations [...]
The Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century The Presidential Timeline provides a single point of access to an ever-growing selection of digitized assets from the collections of the twelve Presidential Libraries of the National Archives. Among these interactive graphics, you’ll find documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video relating to the events of the presidents’ lives. [...]
Augsburg Display Cabinet A focal piece of the sculpture and decorative arts galleries is an extraordinary collector’s cabinet from Augsburg, Germany, which represents the 17th-century desire to gather and order knowledge. Cabinets such as this, along with items of natural, artistic, and intellectual interest originally kept within, are essentially forerunners of today’s museums. Although it [...]
Palestinian Refugees: The Long Road to Chile They suffered abductions, murders, rapes, destruction of property, arrests, dismissals, including personalized and pervasive harassment. Are the Palestinian population in Iraq who have been seriously affected by the conflict plaguing the Arab country. This is how many Palestinians have fled, for the second or third time and ended [...]
Waterworld: How the ocean made us who we are The ocean has shaped human history in deep and surprising ways. In a cave off the coast of South Africa, a pile of mussel, whelk, and giant periwinkle shells attests to the beginning of our romance with the sea — the remains of the earliest recorded [...]
NASA Celebrates 100 Years of Flight An interactive feature highlighting NASA’s contribution to the first 100 years of flight. View the interactive graphic
Remembering the Decade At the start of the decade, prosperity reigned, there was a budget surplus, and housing prices were on the rise. Then we got bogged down in overseas wars, the economy tanked, and we gave up much of our privacy for the convenience of the internet. Here’s a look back at the decade [...]
NASA Celebrates 45 Years of Exploration: An interactive feature highlighting 45 moments in NASA’s history. Welcome to an interactive, multimedia celebration of the 45th anniversary of NASA. Since its founding on Oct. 1, 1958, NASA has pushed the boundaries of exploration from Earth to the Moon, to the outer reaches of our solar system, and [...]
Woodstock, the last three days of the 60 500,000 people, 33 groups, three days free (the billboard fell on the first day) … We summarize in few minutes, the festival that changed history, not just the music. An experience never to be repeated again and probably marked the beginning and the end of an era. [...]