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 death rate from war over the past 600-plus ...

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 ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook ... collected this commemorative chart of battles, leaders, and milestones of the Revolutionary War and deposited it in the National ...

In our relatively short history as a nation, we've fought a lot of them ... with a significantly smaller percentage of the nation's population bearing the burden. The chart below shows U.S. war deaths ...

There was also the Force, and the events of Endor shifted the balance of that power toward the Jedi for the first time in the war’s history. Our chart focuses solely on the military forces shown ...

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.