Recently reissued, William L. Shirer's seminal 1960 history of Nazi Germany is still important reading
Two thousand years before Picasso, artists in Egypt painted some of the most arresting portraits in the history of art
Chronicling passions that change the world, for good and ill
In 1930, many football fans believed the college game was better than the professional one
A century ago, Douglas Mawson saw his two companions die and found himself stranded in the midst of Antarctic blizzards
When Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus met President Kennedy in 1962, JFK told him, "The only science I ever learned was from your comic strip."
The champion golfer was critically injured in 1949—and went on to the most dominant phase of his career
Meet the 1920 radio enthusiast who had the foresight to invent the annoying habit of talking on the phone while in the car
A rundown of historians, authors and bloggers to follow in the coming year
Off the coast of North Carolina lie dozens of shipwrecks, remainders of a forgotten theater of World War II
History often plays linguistic tricks on us, especially when it comes to rapidly changing technologies
Charles J. Guiteau said he wanted to kill President James A. Garfield "in an American manner."
Sightseeing across the country in an atomic-powered "pleasure ball"
The public's fascination with the concept of "movable pavement" extends back more than 130 years
A collection of historic front pages shows how civilians experienced and read about the war
Science-fiction pioneer Hugo Gernsback predicted that, as long as police officers were stuck on terra firma, criminals always would have the edge
No one had ever tunneled under a major river before Marc Brunel began a shaft below London's river in the 1820s
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