In my case it redirects me to https://history.de, where I learned that, if I turn on my TV, I could be watching the highly-regarded documentary series "Ancient Aliens". I think the website redirects you to your "local" version of the site, content be damned.

Same for me, I can't go to history.com. Might be an European thing, I see they own the history channel: https://www.hearstnetworks.com/brands/cee/history

I got redirected to history.co.uk/ (the root, so lol, no article for you)

There's a (just about readable, the background is greyed out due to a popup) archive at https://archive.ph/3HvjM - far from perfect, and I understand if people would rather not bother than deal with the low contrast ick of the archive, but I found it interesting enough to maximise my screen brightness and read it anyway.