All History Courses
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Decisions That Shaped the World
Ashoka: The War Within
Fall of Empires
India's Independence
Medical Breakthroughs
The Civil Rights Decisions
The Environmental Reckoning
The Space Race
The Technology Decisions
Women Who Changed the Rules
Featured Stories
Thirteen Days
October 1962. Soviet missiles in Cuba. The world is thirteen days from nuclear war. Inside the ExComm crisis room, you must read the room before the room reads you — and find the decision that holds the line without crossing it.
The Salt March
India, 1930. Gandhi has announced a 241-mile march to the sea to make salt illegally and break British law. You are part of the inner circle. The British administration is watching. The question is not whether to march — it is how to make the march impossible to ignore.
The Corridor
Berlin, June 1948. The Soviets have closed all ground routes to the Western sectors. Two million civilians need food, fuel, and medicine. You are the Allied liaison officer. The decision between negotiation, escalation, and the impossible logistics of an airlift runs through you.
The Handshake
South Africa, 1993. The apartheid state is ending. The constitutional negotiations at Kempton Park are the only thing between a democratic election and civil war. You are the ANC legal adviser. The deal requires trust between people with no reason to trust each other.
The Argument
Washington D.C., June 1947. Europe is starving. Secretary Marshall has a $16 billion plan. Congress is isolationist and half the committee thinks Europe had its chance. You are the State Department briefer. You have forty-five minutes with the senator who controls the vote.
The Decision
261 BCE. Pataliputra, the Mauryan capital. Emperor Ashoka has called a war council. You are his youngest advisor, and you are about to be asked whether to invade Kalinga. The question is not whether the empire can win.