This Year in History

As 2017 slips into the history books, take a look back at the year in culture—with the best new releases that drew from the past. Whatever medium your personal passion might be, these movies, books, TV shows and podcasts proved that what’s old can be new again. Film Directors ...read more

1. Seventy years after the end of World War II, we commemorated the Allies’ final push to Berlin and the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, explored Mussolini’s final hours, looked back at how the world celebrated V-E Day, met a Japanese engineer who survived two atomic bombs, and ...read more

Our Inner Neanderthals: DNA makes case that Neanderthals interbred with modern humans Neanderthals may have died out some 30,000 years ago, but their legacy lives on in the genetic codes of today’s non-Africans. It turns out that the muscular, big-brained hunters interbred with ...read more