A short history of the mutiny at Taranto in Italy by West Indian soldiers in the British army at the end of World War I, which had a significant impact subsequently on anti-colonial struggles in the ...

The film explores the French and Indian War, a pivotal conflict between France and England in the mid-18th century that determined control over North America. It discusses the initial military ...

The Allied Normandy landing in 1944 is known as "the beginning of the end of war in Europe." But less known are the 2.5 million Indians who also played a critical role in World War II. About the same ...

When people talk about the world's most elite special forces, the British Special Air Services (SAS) often takes the spotlight -- thanks to war movies, action games, and tales of daring missions ...

History in a Nutshell is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV ...

The first Sikh Gurudwara was established in 1912 by the early immigrant Sikh farmers in Stockton, California. Credit: Wikimedia Commons As World War I loomed in Europe, in California’s San Francisco ...

LIGONIER, PENNSYLVANIA—On November 12, 1758, George Washington, then a colonel in the British army, faced imminent peril. Years later, he wrote that his life was in as “much jeopardy as it ever had ...