Augustus Heinze dominated the copper fields of Montana, but his family's scheming on Wall Street set off the Panic of 1907
Can modern science determine who shot this 18th century Swedish king?
Major Taylor had to brave more than the competition to become one of the most acclaimed cyclists of the world
Throughout the 1876 campaign, Tilden’s opposition had called him everything from a briber to a thief to a drunken syphilitic
The Grand Dragon of the Klan and prominent Indiana politician had a vicious streak that had horrifying consequences
Through centuries of human suffering, one vision has sustained: a belief in a terrestrial arcadia
"Count" Victor Lustig once sold the Eiffel Tower to an unsuspecting scrap-metal dealer. Then he started thinking really big
A half-century ago, a U.S. military test lit up the skies and upped the ante with the Soviets
"She killed her sister, butchered her elder brothers, murdered the ruler, poisoned her mother," the chronicles say. But is the empress unfairly maligned?
In 1904, St. Louis hosted the Olympic Games as part of the World's Fair—and produced a spectacle that incorporated all the mischief of the midway
Voted female athlete of the 20th century, the runner won four gold medals while pregnant with her third child
The Transcontinental Railroad connected East and West—and accelerated the destruction of what had been in the center of North America
Gore-Booth sisters, Constance and Eva, forsook their places amid Ireland's Protestant gentry to fight for the rights of the disenfranchised and the poor
John D. Rockefeller Sr. epitomized Gilded Age capitalism. Ida Tarbell was one of the few willing to hold him accountable
A British journalist provides us with a window into the lives of the men who made their living from combing for treasures in London's sewers
Rudolph Valentino fought a long battle against innuendo about his masculinity right up until he died. But now he seems to have won
In 1912, a family of six was murdered by ax in the little town of Villisca, Iowa. Might these killings be linked to nine other similar crimes?
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