American special operations forces have become a major military player - and maybe a substitute for strategic thinking Article 5074 words 7 votes
New technique reveals centuries of secrets in locked letters Article 1039 words, published Mar 2 2021 4 votes
Napoleon’s brother lived in New Jersey. Here’s what happened to the estate. Article 1478 words 8 votes
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Janine de Greef, Belgian who helped smuggle downed Allied airmen to safety during World War II, dies at 95 Article 1253 words 7 votes
The world's most important body of water: The history of the South China Sea and four men who helped shape it Article 4084 words 6 votes
Extraordinary number of arrows dating from the Stone Age to the medieval period have melted out of a single ice patch in Norway in recent years Article 411 words 8 votes
The curse of the buried treasure - Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare. Article 8055 words 5 votes
The next decade could be even worse: A historian believes he has discovered iron laws that predict the rise and fall of societies. He has bad news. Article 5121 words 24 votes
The Million Man March: Powerful images of Black men and brotherhood twenty-five years ago Article 571 words 9 votes
How we lie to ourselves about history: The You're Wrong About podcast debunks the stories of the past, but its real subject isn't so much facts as the process by which we absorb them Article 1649 words 11 votes
What Jim Crow taught the Nazis: In the 1930s, the Nazi regime were fascinated by the global leader in codified race law — the United States Article 1541 words, published Oct 3 2017 9 votes
From its origins airing the banter of bored firefighters to its robust classical programming today, Dallas’s WRR-FM has filled an unusual niche on the airwaves for nearly a century Article 1832 words 4 votes
The Bush-Gore recount is an omen for 2020: An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern US history Article 10 883 words 16 votes
In the decades before the American civil war, violence broke out in Congress too Article 1485 words, published Oct 22 2018 7 votes
Ancient Rome was teetering. Then a volcano erupted 6,000 miles away Article 2010 words, published Jun 22 2020 5 votes
The history of the US Army's 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the largest unit of black servicewomen to ever deploy overseas Article 2559 words, published Jun 17 2020 4 votes
What is owed: If true justice and equality are ever to be achieved in the United States, the country must finally take seriously what it owes Black Americans Article 8675 words 8 votes
The rape kit’s secret history - This is the story of the woman who forced the police to start treating sexual assault like a crime Article 8171 words 8 votes
The case for reparations: We've had 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow, 60 years of separate but equal and 35 years of racist housing policy. Without addressing this, the US can't move on Article 14 406 words, published Jun 3 2014 32 votes
Early warnings: How American journalists reported the rise of Hitler Article 529 words, published Mar 13 2012 5 votes
Pandemic escape: Volunteers transcribe Sally Ride’s papers, Rosa Parks’s recipes, Walt Whitman’s poems Article 1239 words 7 votes
How white backlash controls American progress: Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history Article 3263 words 8 votes
The Kentucky miner who scammed Americans by claiming he was Hitler and plotting a ‘revolt’ with ‘spaceships’ Article 4106 words 9 votes
An Oxford professor, an evangelical collector, and a missing gospel of Mark: A scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment, now faces allegations of theft, cover-up, and fraud Article 8361 words 11 votes
Charles Coughlin, the 'Radio Priest' who brought fascism to America in the 1930s (1979) Article 146 words, published Oct 28 1979 7 votes
The history of a Cold War mastermind: Gus Weiss, a shrewd intelligence insider, pulled off an audacious tech hack against the Soviets in the last century. Or did he? Article 8654 words 4 votes
In 1721, Boston’s colonists greeted Cotton Mather’s proposal for smallpox inoculation with a terror that bordered on hysteria Article 1187 words 4 votes
The Muslim world’s question: ‘What happened to us?’ Article 3066 words, published Jan 25 2020 5 votes