Take a front seat ride in the Apollo Lunar Module as it makes its historic descent and avoids a near...

Four satellite launches into the Space Race, and the score—in terms of pounds put into orbit—is Comm...

As the Apollo program finally starts to take wings, learn how the entire program, and everything it...

Nearly every single human with access to a TV set watched the blurry, almost surreal image of Neil A...

Enjoy this episode for free for a limited time. The Cold War started in the same place that World Wa...

After the defeat of Nazi Germany, the fragile alliance between the Allied countries in the west and...

Immediately following World War Two, Germany was divided into four parts: British, Russian, American...

Although the entire Cold War passed without shots being fired between the two superpowers, the Cold...

Joseph Stalin, the architect and instigator of the 42-year Cold War, has died five years into the co...

In the years after World War II, Dwight David Eisenhower was arguably the most popular man on the pl...

The man who returned to his native country with Che Guevara on a leaky tub, bringing communism to th...

As US reconnaissance overflights of Cuba resume after a hiatus following the disastrous Bay of Pigs...

With the mechanisms of apocalypse firmly in place, both sides accelerate their efforts to determine...

They stepped out of a big, air-conditioned silver bird, into the kind of heat, and humidity that eve...

Mired not only in the jungles of Southeast Asia but, but from outdated, rigid doctrine, fossilized t...

A change of command comes too late to reverse the situation in Southeast Asia as Richard Nixon's pro...

Nixon goes to China and in a masterstroke of diplomacy turns a two-power Cold War into three-power t...

Over 20 million people were murdered in 20th century Soviet Russia at the hands of Lenin, Trotsky, a...

Russia is still feeling the shock of the long-established autocracy falling with Tsar Nicholas II wh...

It's 1917. Lenin and comrades have galvanized large swaths of Russian common folk, or the "Proletari...

Having just succeeded in their revolution, the Bolsheviks lay roots for what would become one of the...

Despite the momentum Russia was gaining in prosperity and liberty in the beginning of the 20th centu...

At the seizure of power, Lenin and his Bolsheviks are met with assassination attempts and resistance...

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