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Dino Brugioni explains how he and other CIA photo analysts located Soviet missiles just 90 miles away from the United States
October 10, 2012
| By Megan Gambino
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
October 09, 2012
| By Matt Novak
The true story behind the myth of Mrs. O'Leary and her cow and how the scapegoating ruined one woman's good name and spawned a folk song that would last for decades
October 04, 2012
| By Karen Abbott
Hugo Gernsback's predictions give us a look at the most radical of technological utopianism from the 1920s
October 04, 2012
| By Matt Novak
Has the Disney theme park outlived its purpose as a monument to science and technology?
October 03, 2012
| By Matt Novak
What are the key dos and don'ts the candidates should remember when campaigning for the White House?
October 03, 2012
| By Kenneth C. Davis
The Jetson family's descent into sex, drugs and rock & roll
October 01, 2012
| By Matt Novak
Did ancient priests fool visitors to a sulfurous subterranean stream that they had crossed the River Styx and entered Hades?
October 01, 2012
| By Mike Dash
Mao Zedong encouraged critics of his government—and then betrayed them just when their advice might have prevented a calamity
September 26, 2012
| By Gilbert King
Meet George Jetson! The first installment of our 24-part series on the show that would forever change how we view the future
September 24, 2012
| By Matt Novak
The wartime inconveniences of traveling by train prompted the promise for "the finest transportation the world has ever seen"
September 21, 2012
| By Matt Novak
Jeopardy! Champion Ken Jennings takes you on a challenging adventure through the secrets of American history. Win a trip to Washington D.C. and a “Secrets of the Smithsonian” behind-the-scenes tour!
September 2012
| By Ken Jennings
Augustus Heinze dominated the copper fields of Montana, but his family's scheming on Wall Street set off the Panic of 1907.
September 20, 2012
| By Gilbert King
For 80 years, the 11 ironworkers in the iconic photo have remained unknown, and now, thanks to new research, two of them have been identified
September 20, 2012
| By Megan Gambino
Although it was on the air for only one season, The Jetsons remains our most popular point of reference when discussing the future.
September 19, 2012
| By Matt Novak
The legend of the blood suckers, and the violence heaped upon their corpses, came out of ignorance of contagious disease
September 2012
| By Abigail Tucker
Photographer Luca Zanier looks at the view from where the decision-makers sit
October 2012
| By T.A. Frail
October 2012 | By Michael Caruso, Editor in Chief
While researching a book on the Cuban missile crisis, the writer unearthed new spy images that could have changed history
October 2012
| By Michael Dobbs
Douglas Groat thought he understood the risks of his job—until he took on his own employer
October 2012
| By David Wise
After Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, the infamous Plumbers broke into his psychiatrist’s office, looking for a way to discredit him
October 2012
| By Owen Edwards
Two hundred years after the Salem witch trials, farmers became convinced that their relatives were returning from the grave to feed on the living
October 2012
| By Abigail Tucker
A new portrait of the founding father challenges the long-held perception of Thomas Jefferson as a benevolent slaveholder
October 2012
| By Henry Wiencek
Mark Twain prowled the rough-and-tumble streets of 1860s San Francisco with a hard-drinking, larger-than-life fireman
October 2012
| By Robert Graysmith
According to a top religion scholar, this 1,600-year-old text fragment suggests that some early Christians believed Jesus was married—possibly to Mary Magdalene
September 18, 2012
| By Ariel Sabar
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