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The Jetsons didn't invent the flying car, but it sure did a lot to cement the idea of the airborne automobile into the American imagination
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The true story behind the myth of Mrs. O'Leary and her cow
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Hugo Gernsback's predictions give us a look at the most radical of technological utopianism from the 1920s
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Has the Disney theme park outlived its purpose as a monument to science and technology?
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The Jetson family's descent into sex, drugs and rock & roll
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Did ancient priests fool visitors to a sulfurous subterranean stream that they had crossed the River Styx and entered Hades?
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Photographer Luca Zanier looks at the view from where the decision-makers sit
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From the Editor
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In this exclusive transcript from the JFK library, hear what he had to say just days after announcing his candidacy for the presidency
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While researching a book on the Cuban missile crisis, the writer unearthed new spy images that could have changed history
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Douglas Groat thought he understood the risks of his job—until he took on his own employer
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After Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, the notorious Plumbers broke into his psychiatrist's office, looking for a way to discredit him
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Two hundred years after the Salem witch trials, farmers became convinced that their relatives were returning from the grave to feed on the living
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A new portrait of the founding father challenges the long-held perception of Thomas Jefferson as a benevolent slaveholder
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Mark Twain prowled the rough-and-tumble streets of 1860s San Francisco with a hard-drinking, larger-than-life fireman
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Mao Zedong encouraged critics of his government—and then betrayed them just when their advice might have prevented a calamity
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Meet George Jetson! The first installment of our 24-part series on the show that would forever change how we view the future
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The wartime inconveniences of traveling by train prompted the promise for "the finest transportation the world has ever seen"
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Augustus Heinze dominated the copper fields of Montana, but his family's scheming on Wall Street set off the Panic of 1907
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Jeopardy! Champion Ken Jennings takes you on a challenging adventure through the secrets of American history. Will you be our grand prize winner?
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