Cracked Archive - History

5 Insane True Stories That Change How You Picture WWII

The best evidence of how batshit things got is that so many of the weirder stories just became footnotes in your history book.

Authors: By Zachary Frey
Published: August 06, 2015
Comments: 500

6 Historical Myths You've Lapped Up As Fact

From the most pivotal moments of massive wars to fun little factoids about historical figures, a little digging reveals that nothing played out exactly the way your history books claim.

Authors: By Nathan Williams, Glenn Clayburn
Published: July 30, 2015
Comments: 667

Hitler's Super Jet: 6 Lost Historical Secrets We've Dug Up

Hey, scientists, cut it out.

Authors: By Adam Wears
Published: July 29, 2015
Comments: 336

6 Insane Space Stories You Didn't Learn In History Class

Authors: By Chris Radomile
Published: June 26, 2015
Comments: 322

5 Modern Controversies That Have Been Around Forever

If you owned a time machine and took a tour of the past, you'd see the same shit coming up over and over again.

Authors: By Kasper Kauhanen
Published: June 18, 2015
Comments: 462

6 Bizarre Armies You Won't Believe Won Real Victories

War ... war never changes. Oh wait, yes it does.

Authors: By Dimitra Nikolaou
Published: June 16, 2015
Comments: 309

The 6 Most Embarrassing Historical Artifacts Ever Discovered

WARNING: This articles contains centuries-old mummy wiener and sex toys.

Authors: By Marina Reimann
Published: June 05, 2015
Comments: 470

5 Ridiculous Cold War Myths You Probably Believe

The Cold War was a 40-year pissing contest in which the entire world's population kept a constant eye on the news, with a never-ending fear that one side or the other would whap their big, red Armageddon button first.

Authors: By Nathan Williams
Published: May 13, 2015
Comments: 710

5 Horrifying Realities Of Daily Life Edited Out Of History

You can actually make yourself feel a whole lot better about your life today merely by reminding yourself of a few key things about the past.

Authors: By Chris Fox
Published: May 05, 2015
Comments: 698

5 Insane Theories That Change How You See Great Works Of Art

We want to emphasize the word 'theories' here -- none of these have been proven, and probably never will be.

Authors: By Nathan Williams
Published: April 29, 2015
Comments: 711

6 Incredible Ancient Wonders (Destroyed By Idiots)

When future archaeologists look back at our era thousands of years from now, they'll reach two major conclusions: 1) our subway system was very inefficient and bizarrely sandwich-centric, and 2) we were morons.

Authors: By Adam Wears
Published: April 10, 2015
Comments: 906

5 Real Supervillain Attacks on America That History Forgot

Prior to 9/11, we could scarcely believe such a thing was even possible. But that's only because our memories totally suck.

Authors: By Zachary Frey
Published: March 17, 2015
Comments: 613

5 Ancient Discoveries That Prove Modern Men Are Sexist

It turns out that archaeology has proven a whole bunch of our assumptions to be wrong, which, in addition to tricking Nazis into melting their own faces off, is exactly what archaeologists are supposed to do.