Editors' Picks

The Secret Plot to Rescue Napoleon by Submarine

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?

Eleanor Roosevelt and the Soviet Sniper

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.

For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of WWII

In 1978, Soviet geologists prospecting in the wilds of Siberia discovered a family of six, lost in the taiga

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Momentous or Merely Memorable
August 2008 | By Alison McLean

Momentous or Merely Memorable
July 2008 | By Smithsonian Magazine

Momentous or Merely Memorable
June 2008 | By Smithsonian Magazine

The country's global adventurism in the 16th century linked continents and cultures as never before, as a new exhibition makes clear
September 2007 | By David Zax

Traveling through Cambodia, our writer details the history and archaeology of Angkor's ancient temples
July 01, 2007 | By Cardiff de Alejo Garcia

Investigating London's famous police force and some of its most infamous cases
September 28, 2007 | By Jess Blumberg

Momentous or Merely Memorable
February 2008 | By Alison McLean

The rain he worried about. The Camel cigarettes he chain-smoked. The letter he wrote in case of failure. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's defining moment comes to life in an excerpt from Michael Korda's best-selling new biography.
December 2007 | By Michael Korda

Socialites and celebrities flocked to Cuba in the 1950s
August 01, 2007 | By Natasha Del Toro

Momentous or Merely Memorable
March 2008 | By Alison McLean

Momentous or Merely Memorable
May 2008 | By Smithsonian Magazine

Momentous or Merely Memorable
April 2008 | By Alison McLean

Momentous or Merely Memorable
January 2009 | By Alison McLean

The Great White Hope, Beethoven, and more...
December 2008 | By Allison McLean

Momentous or Merely Memorable
November 2011 | By Alison McLean

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