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Canada and Australia Don’t Want To Play Along With U.N. Climate Summit
Political leaders from Canada and Australia, along with a few others, are skipping the U.N. climate summit today
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Women Get More Politically Engaged When Their Senator Is Also Female
Women no longer lag far behind men in political savvy when they have a female leader to look toward
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How an American Missionary Helped Capture the First Panda Given to the U.S.
“Missionaries sometimes have to tackle strange and unusual jobs,” David Graham wrote.
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Why Do Secretaries of State Make Such Terrible Presidential Candidates?
Before the Civil War, the cabinet position was considered a stepping stone to the Chief Executive; now, not so much
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The U.S. Is Going to Help Try to Find the Still-Missing Nigerian School Girls
President Obama pledges immediate, on-the-ground support
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What the New Cesar Chavez Film Gets Wrong About the Labor Activist
Despite the good intentions, the biopic misleads and distorts his role in the farm workers movement
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Seventy Five Years Ago, the Bronx Tried to Take Over Part of Manhattan With Just a Limo And a Flag
James F. Lyons drove over to Marble Hill and planted his flag, claiming it as his. It didn’t work.
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How Friedrich Engels’ Radical Lover Helped Him Father Socialism
Mary Burns exposed the capitalist’s son to the plight of the working people of Manchester
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Alexander Hamilton’s Adultery and Apology
Revelations about the treasury secretary’s sex life forced him to choose between candor and his career.
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How the Ford Motor Company Won a Battle and Lost Ground
Corporate violence against union organizers might have gone unrecorded—if it not for an enterprising news photographer
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When New York City Tamed the Feared Gunslinger Bat Masterson
The lawman had a reputation to protect—but that reputation shifted after he moved East
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The Most Audacious Australian Prison Break of 1876
An American whaling ship brought together an oddball crew with a dangerous mission: freeing six Irishmen from a jail in western Australia
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The Dead Woman Who Brought Down the Mayor
Vivian Gordon was a reputed prostitute and blackmailer—but her murder led to the downfall of New York Mayor Jimmy Walker
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Eleanor Roosevelt and the Soviet Sniper
Pavlichenko was a Soviet sniper credited with 309 kills—and an advocate for women’s rights. On a U.S. tour in 1942, she found a friend in the first lady
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War and Peace of Mind for Ulysses S. Grant
With the help of his friend Mark Twain, Grant finished his memoirs—and saved his wife from an impoverished widowhood—just days before he died
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The Candor and Lies of Nazi Officer Albert Speer
The minister of armaments was happy to tell his captors about the war machine he had built. But it was a different story when he was asked about the Holocaust
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The History of the Teddy Bear: From Wet and Angry to Soft and Cuddly
After Teddy Roosevelt’s act of sportsmanship in 1902 was made legendary by a political cartoonist, his name was forever affixed to an American classic
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The Day Henry Clay Refused to Compromise
The Great Pacificator was adept at getting congressmen to reach agreements over slavery. But he was less accommodating when one of his own slaves sued him
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Madame Restell: The Abortionist of Fifth Avenue
Without benefit of medical training, Madame Restell spent 40 years as a “female physician”
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The History of Pardoning Turkeys Began With Tad Lincoln
The rambunctious boy had free rein of the White House, and used it to divert a holiday bird from the butcher’s block
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