Programme de True History

Witness how fossil evidence and molecular evidence can explain anthropology's most complex issues.

Where exactly did Homo come from? Follow the highly public story here.

In this episode, closely examine the fossil and genetic evidence of a fascinating "ground ape."

Investigate hominid brain size in the fossil record, and shed new light on brain size and skull structure.

Explore diet and morphology in this episode on Australopithecus robustus and Australopithecus africanus.

Learn how we found the truth about where our genus Homo came from'and where it evolved.

Professor Martin offers you a detailed picture of what early stone toolmakers were like.

What do we known about the species that sits between Australopithecines and the rest of the genus Homo?

Learn how cosmology takes the entire universe as its subject.

Explore the hierarchy of structures in the universe.

Is the universe lumpy, or smooth, or is it both?

By far, the bulk of the universe is dark energy and dark matter.

Survey the history of the universe, from the big bang to a possible future.

Learn how a "distance ladder" helps us determine distances in the universe.

According to Doppler shift measurements, galaxies are moving away from us.

Consider three important cosmological distances in the universe.

Witness how fossil evidence and molecular evidence can explain anthropology's most complex issues.

Where exactly did Homo come from? Follow the highly public story here.

In this episode, closely examine the fossil and genetic evidence of a fascinating "ground ape."

Investigate hominid brain size in the fossil record, and shed new light on brain size and skull structure.

Explore diet and morphology in this episode on Australopithecus robustus and Australopithecus africanus.

Learn how we found the truth about where our genus Homo came from'and where it evolved.

Professor Martin offers you a detailed picture of what early stone toolmakers were like.

What do we known about the species that sits between Australopithecines and the rest of the genus Homo?

Learn how cosmology takes the entire universe as its subject.

Explore the hierarchy of structures in the universe.

Is the universe lumpy, or smooth, or is it both?

By far, the bulk of the universe is dark energy and dark matter.

Survey the history of the universe, from the big bang to a possible future.

Learn how a "distance ladder" helps us determine distances in the universe.

According to Doppler shift measurements, galaxies are moving away from us.

Consider three important cosmological distances in the universe.

Witness how fossil evidence and molecular evidence can explain anthropology's most complex issues.

Where exactly did Homo come from? Follow the highly public story here.

In this episode, closely examine the fossil and genetic evidence of a fascinating "ground ape."

Investigate hominid brain size in the fossil record, and shed new light on brain size and skull structure.

Explore diet and morphology in this episode on Australopithecus robustus and Australopithecus africanus.

Learn how we found the truth about where our genus Homo came from'and where it evolved.

Professor Martin offers you a detailed picture of what early stone toolmakers were like.

What do we known about the species that sits between Australopithecines and the rest of the genus Homo?

See how the propaganda machine of Hitler's Germany targeted the youth with its messages.

Trace the invasion of China in 1937 and the brutal Rape of Nanjing.

Here, see how new technology defeated the old ways of war.

Wartime Warsaw offers a gateway to the darkest events of the war.

Look at "Operation Torch" as a study in using the military as an instrument of policy.

Take a systematic look at what makes Thucydides perhaps history's first great strategist.

Join the lively debate over the efficacy of the Sicilian Expedition and the Melian Dialogue.

Examine the historical context for "Master Sun's Military Methods."