Modern History

From the end of the 18th century to the present day, this period of history saw European industrialization and the development of the modern nation-state.

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Four infamous whistleblowers from history

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Gandhi's Salt March, the protest that changed Indian history

Berlin Wall in the evening

History of the Berlin Wall

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5 Terrifying Drug Lords You’ve Never Heard Of

9/11 memorial

The Unsung Heroes of 9/11

The history of ISIS

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Famous Undercover Infiltrations

The capture of Saddaam Hussein

6 Infamous War Criminals Hunted Down

Margaret Thatcher

How Thatcher broke the miners' strike

Able Archer 83: the NATO war game that almost led to nuclear conflict

The Flag of the United States and the Flag of the Soviet Union

The weirdest cold war assassination of all

A still from Damian Lewis: Spy Wars, episode 2, Bombs in the Sky

The history of Al Qaeda, the world's most notorious terrorist group

Robert Hanssen

Perfect traitors: Robert Hanssen and Kim Philby

Tom DeLonge

Unidentified: Tom DeLonge and Luis Elizondo interview

A statue of Nicolae Ceausescu at the Museum of the Romanian Socialist Republic, Craiova, Romania

The fall of Nicolae Ceausescu

A statue of Winston Churchill in London, UK

The day the UK turned Its back on Churchill

A NYPD car covered in debris and ash, following the 9/11 terrorist attacks

The biggest 9/11 conspiracy theories debunked

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When America nearly nuked the moon

How the Stonewall riots changed the world

Fidel Castro, former President of Cuba, during news conference in February 1989

Fidel Castro: The guerrilla fighter who became President of Cuba