
Canada: The Story of Us
Find out how Canada made natural resources and industry pay in the 1700s.

Find out how Canada made natural resources and industry pay in the 1700s.

Explore 12,000 years of Indigenous history and Europe's systematic takeover.

The Third Reich failed in the war Hitler started, and a ruined Germany began the process of Denazification.

The racist People's Community spread antisemitism across Germany as the Third Reich's influence grew.

The Great Depression allowed fascism to take hold. By 1935, Hitler's grip on power became absolute.

Post-WWII, both sides used deception to confuse and trick the other. This led to the onset of the Cold War.

In WWII, radios spread false information, and the Allies deployed one of history's most famous double agents.

By 1942, the deception practiced in WWII had become extremely sophisticated. Stealth and cunning were key.

There is no equal on the battlefield to the indomitable presence of the tank.

June 5th, 1944, over 13,000 men from two American parachute divisions flew a nearly impossible mission.

June 6, 1944. 156,000 Allied soldiers pushed toward the French Normandy coast in Operation Overlord.

French soldiers were sure the Great War was about to end. Yet, the Germans easily repelled the attack.

The town of Verdun, in Northeast France, was the scene of World War I's most emblematic battle.

Explore the conflict between church and state which led to Mexico's civil war, and the fight for power.

The War of Independence charts Mexico's fight to break free from Spain after years of instability.

The Spanish Conquest produced 300 years of colonial rule, dividing Mexico with a class system still in effect.

The fortress at Alesia falls to Caesar in his greatest victory, redefining siege warfare with Roman know-how.

Richard the Lionheart constructs a mighty castle on the Seine to dominate over his strategic Normandy lands.

French forces defend Orléans from the English army in the Hundred Years' War's brutal siege of 1428–29.

France turns a corner toward absolute monarchy after 1627–28's Siege of La Rochelle, with Louis XIII in power.