The Affair of the Diamond Necklace
24 Sep 2025
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Marie Antoinette’s world renowned extravagance made her an icon and then an example as the Queen o...
The Man Who Saved the World
17 Sep 2025
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The world remembers the Cuban Missile Crisis as a 13-day war of nerves between the White House and t...
Buying the Presidency
10 Sep 2025
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Money and politics have always been intertwined in America, but before the days of Musk, Bezos and Z...
The Tornado that Saved DC
03 Sep 2025
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During the War of 1812, Washington DC was in the process of being destroyed by the British Army, unt...
The Khan Legacy
27 Aug 2025
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Before the Mongol Empire dominated the Asian Continent, there was no empire to speak of, only nomadi...
The Story of Bananas is Bananas
20 Aug 2025
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Peeling a banana uncovers much more than a tasty fruit, it reveals a fraught history riddled with vi...
The Star Who Invented the Future
13 Aug 2025
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A goal of helping to fight against the Nazis during World War II leads a Hollywood star, known as th...
The Battle of Actium
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The assassination of Julius Caesar left an enormous power vacuum in Rome, thrusting his successors i...
Shotgun Science
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How did modern medicine become modern? It was thanks, in part, to a renegade doctor who pushed the b...
A Sweet Taste of America
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
World War I was known as the War to End All Wars due to its scale and loss of life. At the height of...
The Gunpowder Plot
16 Jul 2025
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In 1605, a plot to kill the King of England was underway, and the man who attempted it, along with h...
The Titanic Question
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if a seemingly unremarkable choice could have prevented one of the most infamous disasters of a...
The Hitler Intervention
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Adolf Hitler's rise to power and the devastation that followed in his wake was hardly inevitable. In...
Fast Cars and Bootleggers
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mobsters, shootouts, and petal-to-the-metal police chases. This is prohibition-era America – a tim...
Inside The Madhouse
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During the Gilded Age in New York City, the horrors of mental health care are exposed in explosive f...
How the Metric System Was Stolen
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why do Americans measure things in inches and pounds while the rest of the world uses centimeters an...
The Shakespeare Riot
Wed, 04 Jun
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
New York City in the mid 1800s was run by violent gangs, corrupt politicians, and grifting opportuni...
The Shakespeare Riot
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
New York City in the mid 1800s was run by violent gangs, corrupt politicians, and grifting opportuni...
The Birth of Hollywood
Wed, 28 May
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
If not for inventor Thomas Edison's iron grip over the nascent film industry, and a few defiant trai...
The Birth of Hollywood
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If not for inventor Thomas Edison's iron grip over the nascent film industry, and a few defiant trai...
Robert E Lee's Lost Orders
Wed, 21 May
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Battle of Antietam during the American Civil War remains the bloodiest day in American history. ...
Robert E Lee's Lost Orders
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Battle of Antietam during the American Civil War remains the bloodiest day in American history. ...
How Murder Went Viral
Wed, 21 May
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In 1910, a brutal murder in London sparks a transatlantic manhunt and the rise of a cultural o...
How Murder Went Viral
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1910, a brutal murder in London sparks a transatlantic manhunt and the rise of a cultural o...
Introducing: A Twist of History
Mon, 28 Apr
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The course of history never follows a straight line. These are the epic stories that have shaped the...
Introducing: A Twist of History
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The course of history never follows a straight line. These are the epic stories that have shaped the...