Recent Stories in World History

Kim Seok-Jin in a white suit performing on stage.
World History

Jin Joins the Army

The interior of a church. There is an aisle down the middle flanked on either side by dozens of people dressed in black. In the aisle, several people are carrying a coffin with a flag draped over it. Several people are walking down the aisle behind the coffin.
World History

Queen Elizabeth II

Image of a ship underwater with the name "Endurance" on it.
World History

Historic Shipwreck Found

A city square is littered with rubble. A burned-out car is in the foreground. People with yellow armbands are in the background lined up outside of a large tent.
World History

Russia Invades Ukraine

World History

Kazakhstan Protests Turn Deadly

A woman with two small children walks across a runway to a waiting military cargo plane in the background.
World History

Afghanistan: The Longest War in American History

World History

Troubles for “Asia’s World City”

Painting shows nurse Florence Nightingale with patients in a hospital, taking notes.
World History

Florence Nightingale: Pioneer of Nursing