You would not know it from the headlines, but today we’re living through one of the most peaceful times in human history. This great chart from Oxford’s Max Roser — which shows the global ...

The Vault is Slate's history blog. ... Historical Chart of the Causes, Milestones, and Battles of the Revolutionary War. By Rebecca Onion. Feb 26, 2014 12:45 PM. Copy Link Share Share Comment ...

According to this graph based on Google Books, the culture war over gay rights reached its peak in the mid-to-late 1990s, and has been gradually waning ever since. In fact, as Beliefnet notes, all ...

The Galactic Civil War — recently retold in the military history called Star Wars 1 — pitted the Imperial Navy, one of the most sophisticated fighting forces in history, against the ragtag ...

America has never been a stranger to war. In our relatively short history as a nation, we've fought a lot of them: 11 official wars and numerous other domestic and international military conflicts, ...

Wars do not come cheap. Between the cost of supplies, lost economic output, and, most importantly, human lives, war always comes with a great cost. In the past 100 years, this has been especially ...

The amount of Palestinian land illegally seized by Israelis reached record levels in 2024, highlighting how settlers have used Israel's wars as cover to build more outposts on Palestinian land.

In the 60 years after World War II, ... you could do much worse than this graph from a new Pew ... None of this is new history.But it's helpful to have a crisp layout of what's changed.