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Harry Selfridge, a London department store owner, may have opened the doors to more than just his retail store when he gave women a chance to power shop
March 13, 2013
| By Amy Henderson
In 1820, one of Britain's most notorious criminals hatched a plan to rescue the emperor from exile on the Atlantic isle of St Helena -- but did he ever try it?
March 08, 2013
| By Mike Dash
Why Beethoven, Galileo, Napoleon and others never truly rested in peace
March 07, 2013
| By Marina Koren
Visionary designers of the 19th century believed that the future of air travel depended on elaborate airships
March 05, 2013
| By Jimmy Stamp
Though evidence against his theory grew, Kon-Tiki sailor Thor Heyerdahl never steered from his course
July 2002
| By Richard Conniff
3D printing is a new technology that seems poised to change the world, but its origins date back all the way to the 15th century
March 01, 2013
| By Jimmy Stamp
The whaler Essex was indeed sunk by a whale—and that's only the beginning
March 01, 2013
| By Gilbert King
A cartoonist diagrammed the parade—5,000 suffragists strong—that defiantly marched in Washington 100 years ago
March 01, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
How a struggling entrepreneur in Ohio saved his burger business during Lent and changed the McDonald's menu for good.
March 01, 2013
| By K. Annabelle Smith
In 1989, Life magazine predicted that, by the year 2000, many staples of modern American life might find themselves on the scrapheap of history
February 27, 2013
| By Matt Novak
This ill-advised scheme would have put gigantic barges just off the Atlantic coast? Where would it have started? New Jersey, of course
February 26, 2013
| By Matt Novak
New short haircuts announced the wearers' break from tradition and boosted the hairdressing industry
February 26, 2013
| By Emily Spivack
From the late-19th century to the 1970s, restaurants had one surefire way of standing out
February 26, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
Vivian Gordon was a reputed prostitute and blackmailer—but her murder led to the downfall of New York Mayor Jimmy Walker
February 25, 2013
| By Rachel Shteir
Travel by pneumatic tubes? The idea was seriously considered in the 1960s
February 25, 2013
| By Matt Novak
How one author adds actual blues and grays to historic photographs
February 22, 2013
| By Ryan R. Reed
A new documentary from Smithsonian Channel looks at how the Civil War helped transform the city of Washington, D.C.
February 22, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a Soviet sniper credited with 309 kills—and an advocate for women's rights. On a U.S. tour in 1942, she found a friend in the first lady.
February 21, 2013
| By Gilbert King
Bernard Bailyn, one of our greatest historians, shines his light on the nation’s Dark Ages
March 2013
| By Ron Rosenbaum
Advertisers love to use futurism as a way to position their products as forward-thinking
February 20, 2013
| By Matt Novak
And you think you're having a bad work week, just think about the robots
February 19, 2013
| By Matt Novak
Finally, women could breathe deeply when the waist-nipping corset went out of style
February 19, 2013
| By Emily Spivack
Did members of a powerful society of warlocks actually murder their enemies and kidnap children?
February 19, 2013
| By Mike Dash
The government can't get their hands on you when you're floating above Earth
February 15, 2013
| By Matt Novak
In 1908, a meteor exploding in mid-air released the energy equivalent to "185 Hiroshima bombs"
February 15, 2013
| By Colin Schultz
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