Whether as a tourist, an outcast or a pilgrim, traveling is discovering
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Scientific progress during the 20th century prompted a number of predictions about an impending cure
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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
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A special visit from the Ghost of Christmas Retro-Future
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The Story of the WWI Christmas Truce
It has become a great legend of World War I. But what really happened when British and German troops emerged from their trenches that Christmas Day?
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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
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Brain Pickings’ Top 11 History Books of the Year
The editor behind the site that curates the best content on the web lists the most interesting history books of 2011
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The Fanciful, Chocolate-Filled World of 2012
In 1912, the French chocolate company Lombart printed a series of six collectible cards envisioning daily life one hundred years in the future
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Giant Automatic Highway Builders of the Future
Radebaugh’s vision of a road-creating machine may not have been a figment of just his imagination- a Disney-produced television program had a similar idea
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At the height of the sailing era, four of the world’s fastest clippers raced home with the season’s precious early cargo of tea
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Jack Dempsey boasted he could tear apart a robot opponent “bolt by bolt and scatter its brain wheels and cogs all over the canvas”
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A Chess Champion’s Dominance—and Madness
As a young man, Paul Morphy vanquished eight opponents simultaneously while effectively blindfolded
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The Midday Ride of Paul Revere
Longfellow made the patriot’s ride to Lexington legendary, but the story of Revere’s earlier trip to Portsmouth deserves to be retold as well
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The Unknown Contributions of Brits in the American Civil War
Historian Amanda Foreman discusses how British citizens took part in the war between the Union and the Confederacy
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Senator Barry Goldwater Imagines Arizona in the Year 2012
The Republican senator and 1964 presidential candidate predicted the growth of the Sun Belt and envisioned an open border with Mexico
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Behind Enemy Lines With Violette Szabo
She was young, married and a mother. But after her husband died in battle against the Nazis, she became a secret agent for the British
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Weather Control as a Cold War Weapon
In the 1950s, some U.S. scientists warned that, without immediate action, the Soviet Union would control the earth’s thermometers
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Making the Rounds With Santa Claus Smith
For six years, an elderly tramp toured the U.S., paying those who helped him with checks for sums of up to $900,000
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Unflinching Portraits of Pearl Harbor Survivors
Seventy years after the day that lives on in infamy, the soldiers stationed at Pearl Harbor recall their experiences
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