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Explosion on Black Tom Island packed the force of an earthquake. It took investigators years to determine that operatives working for Germany were to blame
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A gunshot rang out in the king’s bedroom in June 1946, ending one reign and beginning another. Uncertainty over how it happened has persisted ever since
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“Football is on trial,” President Theodore Roosevelt declared in 1905. So he launched the effort that saved the game
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“Mrs. Sherlock Holmes” Takes on the NYPD
When an 18-year-old girl went missing, the police let the case grow cold. But Grace Humiston, a soft-spoken private investigator, wouldn’t let it lie
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Hall realized his death would set off a national political scandal, inspiring the genuine wonder that he had never been what he seemed
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Egypt’s ruler was more than the sum of the seductions that loom so large in history—and in Hollywood
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Ka’iulani: Hawaii’s Island Rose
In a brief life filled with loss, Princess Ka’iulani established her legacy
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Saving the Jews of Nazi France
As Jews in France tried to flee the Nazi occupation, Harry Bingham, an American diplomat, sped them to safety
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Andy Warhol’s political portraits anticipated today’s blurred boundaries between public office and stardom
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Cixi: The Woman Behind the Throne
The concubine who became China’s last empress
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Statesmen, soldiers and spies who made America and the way they lived
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The Lakota Sioux leader’s relics return to his only living descendants
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Mythology, propaganda, Liz Taylor and the real Queen of the Nile
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The teenage queen was embraced by France in 1770. Twenty-three years later, she lost her head to the guillotine. (But she never said, “Let them eat cake”)
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Al Gore Discusses “An Inconvenient Truth”
Environmentalist Al Gore talks about his new movie
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In 1775, the 20-year-old Alexander Hamilton took up arms to fight the British
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