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Why bother with cloning and time travel, when your dream safari awaits on a nearby planet?
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Revisiting The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Recently reissued, William L. Shirer’s seminal 1960 history of Nazi Germany is still important reading
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The Game that Put the NFL’s Reputation on the Line
In 1930, many football fans believed the college game was better than the professional one
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The Most Terrible Polar Exploration Ever: Douglas Mawson’s Antarctic Journey
A century ago, Douglas Mawson saw his two companions die and found himself stranded in the midst of Antarctic blizzards
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History Writers to Watch in 2012
A rundown of historians, authors and bloggers to follow in the coming year
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A Mobile Phone From 1922? Not Quite
History often plays linguistic tricks on us, especially when it comes to rapidly changing technologies
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Charles J. Guiteau said he wanted to kill President James A. Garfield “in an American manner.”
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Trade Your Trouble for a Bubble
Sightseeing across the country in an atomic-powered “pleasure ball”
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Moving Sidewalks Before The Jetsons
The public’s fascination with the concept of “movable pavement” extends back more than 130 years
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The Epic Struggle to Tunnel Under the Thames
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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The Doomed South Pole Voyage’s Remaining Photographs
A 1912 photograph proves explorer Captain Robert Scott reached the South Pole—but wasn’t the first
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Scientific progress during the 20th century prompted a number of predictions about an impending cure
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A special visit from the Ghost of Christmas Retro-Future
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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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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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