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The Candor and Lies of Nazi Officer Albert Speer
The minister of armaments was happy to tell his captors about the war machine he had built. But it was a different story when he was asked about the Holocaust
How did the tabletop game get from parlor halls in 19th century Europe to the basements of American homes?
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What’s Inside a 2,000-Year-Old, Shipwreck-Preserved Roman Pill?
Ancient Roman pills, preserved in sealed tin containers on the seafloor, may have been used as eye medicine
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How did the tabletop game get from parlor halls in 19th-century Europe to the basements of American homes?
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Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About San Francisco’s Cable Cars
Ever since they became a part of the city’s transit system, they have been iconic mainstays of its cityscape
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Medical diagnostics in the paleofuture
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Antigua’s Disputed Slave Conspiracy of 1736
Does the evidence against these 44 slaves really stack up?
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The Vegas Hotspot That Broke All the Rules
America’s first interracial casino helped end segregation on the Strip and proved that the only color that mattered was green
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The Little-Known Legend of Jesus in Japan
A mountain hamlet in northern Japan claims Jesus Christ was buried there
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The History of the Teddy Bear: From Wet and Angry to Soft and Cuddly
After Teddy Roosevelt’s act of sportsmanship in 1902 was made legendary by a political cartoonist, his name was forever affixed to an American classic
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That Time More Than 150 Years Ago When Thousands of People Watched Baseball on Christmas Day
During the Civil War, two regiments faced off as spectators, possibly as many as 40,000, sat and watched
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Santa Claus Builds A Flying Machine
As the 1800s gave way to the 1900s, many Americans felt that old Saint Nick needed a new way of getting from house to house
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Document Deep Dive: Emancipation Proclamation
When freeing the slaves 150 years ago, Abraham Lincoln traded in his famous lyricism for a dry, legal tone. Harold Holzer explains why
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The Decline and Fall of the Space Action Hero
Elroy gets to meet the star of his favorite show—but, in the real world, spacemen were disappearing from American televisions
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How the Emancipation Proclamation Came to Be Signed
The pen, inkwell and one copy of the document that freed the slaves are photographed together for the first time
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Fun Places on the Internet (in 1995)
What were you doing on the web back in the age of Netscape and Gopher?
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White Gold: How Salt Made and Unmade the Turks and Caicos Islands
Turks and Caicos had one of the world’s first, and largest, salt industries
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Sit Back and Plug In: Entertainment in the Year 2000
Was our future to be delightful or depraved? Sort of depends on your perspective
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The Best Gifts to Give (or Receive) About Paleofuturism
Books and DVDs make up our expert’s gift guide of more ideas for this holiday season
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A Futuristic Golf Game in the Sky
In the year 2062, you really, really don’t want to hit a ball out of bounds
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