How a bright idea shaped our cities and gave the go-ahead to our love affair with the car
The discussion over the memorialization of James Marion Sims offers the opportunity to remember his victims
Greta Perlman survived the Holocaust. The mementos she saved offer clues about how Jews endured the indignities and horrors of the Nazis
We learn a lot about the once and future President, and he learns way too much about himself, in a tense twist with the past coming to the present
Scythian women adorned themselves with tattoos portraying the animals they hunted. It was believed that these tattoos offered magical protection
William J. Kennedy crossed the finish line wrapped in the American flag
Unpacking a debate as old as the United States itself
In ‘Empire of Guns,’ historian Priya Satia explores the microcosm of firearm manufacturing through an unlikely subject—a Quaker family
A new 'Joe Camel'-esque phenomenon may be igniting as the new fad takes a 21st-century page out of an old playbook
Climate change and desperation are putting the country’s unique history at risk
Nearly three centuries before heroines like Katniss and Meg Murray, Sarah Fielding published a book on the values of female education
A stray Moscow pup traveled into orbit in 1957 with one meal and only a seven-day oxygen supply
Earl Tupper invented the container's seal, but it was a savvy, convention-defying entrepreneur who got the product line into the homes of housewives
The CEO of Facebook has some ignominious company from J.P. Morgan to Kenneth Lay
In 1964, the rift between Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammed, founder of the Nation of Islam, would reach a tense peak
A century after killing and scalping ten Native Americans, she was memorialized in what might well be the first public statue of a female in America
The Dugway sheep incident of March 1968 made visible the military’s covert attempts to test and stockpile millions of dollars worth of chemical weapons
Western science long relied on the knowledge and exploitation of colonized peoples. In many ways, it still does
National Airlines Flight 102 took off from an airfield in northeastern Afghanistan. Minutes later, it would stall in midair before crashing to the ground
Rescuing a very important American figure takes just a little tweaking of the historical record
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