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Colonel Parker Managed Elvis’ Career, but Was He a Killer on the Lam?
The man who brought The King to global fame kept his own past secret. But what exactly was Tom Parker hiding?
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1970s Children Draw Robot Presidents and Nuclear Apocalypse
Kids predict the darndest things
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A Spectacle of Horror – The Burning of the General Slocum
The deadliest disaster in New York before 9/11 killed many women and children and ultimately erased a German community from the map of Manhattan
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When the Country’s Founding Father Is Your Founding Father
The descendants of American presidents are the athletic trainers, lawyers, salesmen and executives of everyday life
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Newlyweds who didn’t want to visit the cliched destination of the time, Niagara Falls, dreamt of one day spending their first days as a couple on the moon
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The officer who gained glory as a warrior in the Civil War also had a domestic side.
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The Super Bowl’s Love Affair With Jetpacks
Thankfully, this Super Bowl spectacle never had a wardrobe malfunction
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Chronicling passions that change the world, for good and ill
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Sunday Funnies Blast Off Into the Space Age
When Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus met President Kennedy in 1962, JFK told him, “The only science I ever learned was from your comic strip.”
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Meet the 1920 radio enthusiast who had the foresight to invent the annoying habit of talking on the phone while in the car
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How Newspapers Reported the Civil War
A collection of historic front pages shows how civilians experienced and read about the war
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Mobsters Tremble Before the Crime-Fighting, Red Flying Gondola
Science-fiction pioneer Hugo Gernsback predicted that, as long as police officers were stuck on terra firma, criminals always would have the edge
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God, Government and Roger Williams’ Big Idea
The Puritan minister originated a principle that remains contentious to this day—separation of church and state
Whether as a tourist, an outcast or a pilgrim, traveling is discovering
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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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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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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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