Was Peggy Shippen the real mastermind behind Benedict Arnold’s betrayal? Peggy successfully fooled the most powerful men in America, including George Washington, into believing she was just an innocent and naive creature. It wasn’t until 150 years later that her role in the plot was discovered, when pages of secret […]
Oil spiked after renewed attacks in the Persian Gulf and a fresh push by the US to hurt Iran with sanctions. The conflict in the Middle East has choked off vital energy flows, with millions of barrels of daily oil supply shut-in across the region. Bloomberg’s Rong Wei Neo reports. […]
In the 1760s, powerful men in the American colonies were in danger. The working class people beneath them were sick of the corruption and bullying, and were ready to rebel. All they needed was a ferocious leader willing to take on the fight. Herman Husband was an enigma. Though a […]
Immigrant and Vermont congressman Matthew Lyon was in jail when he was reelected. Not for the fight he started in the halls of Congress but for his willingness to criticize the relatively new government of the United States. For the first time in American history, freedom of speech was up […]
“We want to be taken somewhere. We want to be shown something new. We want to feel like we’ve learned something.” Academy Award-winning actor Brendan Fraser joins Ronny Chieng to talk about playing General Dwight D. Eisenhower in his new film, “Pressure,” a project that checks every one of those […]
Discover how Allied forces conspired to destroy one of Hitler’s most diabolical weapons. Airing May 11, 2016 at 9 pm on PBS NOVA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NOVAonline NOVA Twitter: https://twitter.com/novapbs
For anyone with questions about Trump’s peacekeeping bombing campaign in the Middle East, Desi Lydic has been watching Fox News for 316 hours straight and is an expert on the thing happening in Iran that is absolutely not a war. #DailyShow #Foxsplained #Iran Subscribe to The Daily Show: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA/?sub_confirmation=1 Follow […]
Take the 2023 PBS Survey: https://to.pbs.org/pbssurvey2023p The details of Walter Loving’s complicated double life remained classified for over 60 years. Born to formerly enslaved parents, he became a famous band conductor and an advocate for Black Americans. When the U.S. military grew paranoid that Black Americans were colluding with German […]
‘Tales From the Bottle’ travels back to Medieval Italy (again!) to explore the story of a killer bucket “The War of the Bucket or the War of the Oaken Bucket was fought in 1325, between the rival city-states of Bologna and Modena. It took place in the region of Emilia-Romagna […]
Five experts discuss what a war on the Korean peninsula would look like, how close we are to conflict, and the terrifying consequences. Read about the implications of war with North Korea on Vox.com: http://bit.ly/2nNK2ei With tensions between the US and North Korea escalating, we asked a group of experts […]
