Political Leaders

President Ulysses S. Grant with First Lady Julia Dent Grant and son Jesse in 1872.

General Grant in Love and War

The officer who gained glory as a warrior in the Civil War also had a domestic side.

Harold Holt, the Australian Prime Minister, taking a swim

The Prime Minister who Disappeared

Coya Knutson campaigning for Congress

Friends in the House, Hostility at Home

Coya Knutson won a seat in the U.S. House in 1954 but was undone by a secret she brought to Washington

Justice John Marshall Harlan

The Great Dissenter and His Half-Brother

John Harlan championed racial justice on a hostile Supreme Court. Robert Harlan, a freed slave, achieved renown despite the court's decisions

Ferdinand Pecora

The Man Who Busted the ‘Banksters’

Aftermath of the Black Tom explosion on July 30, 1916

Sabotage in New York Harbor

Explosion on Black Tom Island packed the force of an earthquake. It took investigators years to determine that operatives working for Germany were to blame

King Ananda Mahidol of Siam in 1939

Long Live the King

A gunshot rang out in the king's bedroom in June 1946, ending one reign and beginning another. Uncertainty over how it happened has persisted ever since

Richard Von Gammon, a football casualty of 1897

Score One for Roosevelt

"Football is on trial," President Theodore Roosevelt declared in 1905. So he launched the effort that saved the game

Mrs. Grace Humiston, a.k.a. "Mrs. Sherlock Holmes"

“Mrs. Sherlock Holmes” Takes on the NYPD

When an 18-year-old girl went missing, the police let the case grow cold. But Grace Humiston, a soft-spoken private investigator, wouldn't let it lie

Murray Hall at the ballot box

The Mystery of Murray Hall

Hall realized his death would set off a national political scandal, inspiring the genuine wonder that he had never been what he seemed

The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century engraving, sneaked back from exile and surprised Julius Caesar.

Rehabilitating Cleopatra

Egypt's ruler was more than the sum of the seductions that loom so large in history—and in Hollywood

Princess Ka'iulani was born in Honolulu in 1875.

Ka’iulani: Hawaii’s Island Rose

In a brief life filled with loss, Princess Ka’iulani established her legacy

In just ten months, Bingham (in Marseille) provided aid, including travel documents, to some 2,500 Jewish refugees-thereby effectively ending his career.

Saving the Jews of Nazi France

As Jews in France tried to flee the Nazi occupation, Harry Bingham, an American diplomat, sped them to safety

Andy Warhol, Founding Collection, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh.

Warhol's Pop Politics

Andy Warhol's political portraits anticipated today's blurred boundaries between public office and stardom

Rick Perlstein

Rick Perlstein on "Parties to History"

The Empress Dowager Cixi

Cixi: The Woman Behind the Throne

The concubine who became China’s last empress

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Revolutionary Real Estate

Statesmen, soldiers and spies who made America and the way they lived

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Sitting Bull's Legacy

The Lakota Sioux leader's relics return to his only living descendants

The Egyptian queen frequently surrounded herself with splendor, but luxury was less an indulgence than a political tool.

Who Was Cleopatra?

Mythology, propaganda, Liz Taylor and the real Queen of the Nile

Marie-Antoinette, her children, and Madame de Tourzel face the mob at the Tuleries on June 20th, 1792.

Marie Antoinette

The teenage queen was embraced by France in 1770. Twenty-three years later, she lost her head to the guillotine. (But she never said, "Let them eat cake")

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