Department of History

HALT U-BOATS IN ZEEBRUGGE Drawing on eyewitness accounts from survivors, expert testimony, rare photos and military documents from the battle, discover the events of April 22, 1918, when a flotilla of British warships, led by the cruiser HMS Vindictive set sail for the fortified harbor of Zeebrugge, defended by coastal batteries, a deadly mole, and a seawall bristling with guns. BATTLEFIELD DETECTIVES: WORLD WAR ONE: THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND What really happened when catastrophe befell the mightiest fleet in the world? See the remarkable new analysis of the epic battle that sent Britain's unconquerable super-dreadnoughs to the seafloor. BATTLEFIELD DETECTIVES: WORLD WAR ONE: THE SOMME In just one day almost 60,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded. Why was this first day on the Somme such a disaster for the British? JOHN J. PERSHING: THE IRON GENERAL From the fading frontier to the trenches of World War I, follow the career of one of the most important American generals of all time, taking a 128,000-man force and transforming it into a juggernaut of four million soldiers that won a war.