A 1989 prediction about portable GPS devices was right on the money
Tim Jarvis's Plan to Cross the Antarctic in an Exact Replica of the James Caird
Why did the country really go to war against the British? Which American icon came out of the forgotten war?
Was LSD the Soviet Union's secret weapon?
Captain Lawrence Oates wrote that if Robert Scott's team didn't win the race to the South Pole, "we shall come home with our tails between our legs"
College graduates take note: Your dream career as a robot psychologist or nasal technologist is just around the corner
The question was not “Should you eat human flesh?” says one historian, but, “What sort of flesh should you eat?”
Frank Ward was a 17-year-old crewman when he saw the infamous disaster, but his memories of that day are still strong, 75 years later
Last year major-leaguers scored the fewest runs per game in 19 seasons. A top statistician says that’s something to root, root, root for
Travel pushes us. Home pulls
A new addition to the Smithsonian collections tells a new story about the legendary disaster
Robert Caro, the esteemed biographer of Lyndon Baines Johnson, talks on the Shakespearean life of the 36th president
An index to houses great and small over the centuries
Compare documents filed by the first and last homesteaders in the United States
The evidence against Albert Tirrell was lurid and damning—until Rufus Choate, a protegé of the great Daniel Webster, agreed to come to the defense
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