December 10, 1898. The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Paris, formally ending the Spanish-American War. It is the end of a...

December 9, 1917. After almost 800 years, a European army once again enters the holiest of cities. The British General Sir Edmund Allenby...

December 8, 1914. World War I has made its way into the South Atlantic. The small German force of Admiral Maximilian von Spee, the only...

December 7, 1941. You probably already hear Franklin D. Roosevelt’s voice in your head reading that. Today is a day which will live in...

December 6, 1916. If you come at the king, you best not miss. After two years, the King of Romania has finally decided to join the Allies...

December 5, 1941. The Nazis are on the verge of triumph. Hitler’s Wehrmacht has won an astounding series of military victories since the...

DECEMBER 4 - 530 BC. The greatest empire the world has ever seen has come together. A nomadic people known to later historians as the...

December 3, 1971. There’s a good chance you can blame it all on the British, but you could say that about many things. The continuing...

December 2, 1805. One year to the date after his coronation as Emperor, Napoleon seems like he’s on the verge of losing everything. A...

December 1, 1135. Henry I, King of England and son of William the Conqueror, is dead. Long live the…King? Queen? No one is sure, and...

November 30, 1700. Sweden is ruled by a teenager. This seems like a perfect time for Denmark, Poland, and Russia to jump on Sweden and...

November 29, 1967. The Vietnam War is going badly, and everyone knows it – even one of its chief architects. Secretary of Defense Robert...

November 28, 1943. The last guests have arrived in Tehran, the capital of Iran, and the great conference is about to begin. For the first...

November 27, 1950. The United States 1st Marine Division’s advance up the west side of Chosin Reservoir suddenly runs into a wall of...

November 26, 1950. The Korean War seems almost over. The American-led UN forces have advanced deep into North Korea and are approaching...

November 25, 1863. The Union army in Chattanooga, humiliated by recent defeat, has been given a small task: take the Confederate outpost...

November 24, 1915. The Bulgarian Army, which is a thing that exists, marches into Kosovo in the southwest corner of Serbia. The small...

November 23, 1943. After four days of intense combat, the small Central Pacific islands of Tarawa Atoll fall silent. 6,400 American,...

NOVEMBER 22: 415 BC. The tenuous peace between Athens and Sparta is broken once again when Athenian general Alcibiades proposes a crazy...

November 21, 1920. The morning is broken by violence in houses and apartments across Dublin as members of the Irish Republican Army...