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    Inside the Fiction Group in a Maximum-Security Psychiatric Hospital

    Inside the Fiction Group in a Maximum-Security Psychiatric Hospital

    "They’d talk about what ward they were on, their security level, the medication they were taking, and how long they’d been at Perkins, but I never heard a patient ask another patient about their crime."

    By Mikita Brottman | July 7, 2021

    The Women Who Became Sex Radicals and Changed the Course of American History

    The Women Who Became Sex Radicals and Changed the Course of American History

    Ida Craddock and her fellow free lovers took on Anthony Comstock and the patriarchy. Why has history mostly forgotten them?

    By Amy Sohn | July 6, 2021

    The Lost History of Britain's Secret, Wildly Innovative Machine Built to Break Hitler's Prize Codes

    The Lost History of Britain's Secret, Wildly Innovative Machine Built to Break Hitler's Prize Codes

    In the same secret complex where Alan Turing was designing Enigma, there was another, vastly more complex code-breaking machine that would help turn the war.

    By David A. Price | June 25, 2021

    Five True Crime Books You Should Read This Month

    Five True Crime Books You Should Read This Month

    A look at the month's best new nonfiction crime.

    By CrimeReads | June 24, 2021

    For Lack of an Ending: How the 1970 Death of a Young Iowa Woman Became a Generations-Spanning Search for Truth

    For Lack of an Ending: How the 1970 Death of a Young Iowa Woman Became a Generations-Spanning Search for Truth

    Katherine Dykstra first learned about the death of 18-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling from her mother-in-law. The case file would come to consume her, but why?

    By Katherine Dykstra | June 23, 2021

    How the Banning of Joyce's <em>Ulysses</em> Led to

    How the Banning of Joyce's Ulysses Led to "The Grandest Obscenity Case in the History of Law and Literature"

    Morris Ernst knew he could win the case to "liberate" Joyce's famously banned novel. So he found a publisher, took a cut of the royalties, and had a copy sent by boat to America.

    By Samantha Barbas | June 22, 2021

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    The Mississippi Farmer Who Helped Take Down the Jones County Klan

    By Curtis Wilkie | June 22, 2021

    The Early, Wild, Exploited, and Sometimes Radical Days of the Comic Book Industry in America

    By Paul S. Hirsch | June 21, 2021

    Inside New Jersey's Notorious Prison for Women, Life Carries on for Krystal Riordan

    By Stephanie Dickinson | June 18, 2021

    Asian-American Spies Played Critical Roles in World War Two—They Were Also Under Constant Suspicion

    Asian-American Spies Played Critical Roles in World War Two—They Were Also Under Constant Suspicion

    A new study of three men and a tangled web of subversion, sabotage, and challenged loyalty.

    By Brian Masaru Hayashi | June 16, 2021

    “They Wanted Something for Nothing”: The Many Cons of the Yellow Kid

    “They Wanted Something for Nothing”: The Many Cons of the Yellow Kid

    He was America's "greatest con man," self-proclaimed and widely celebrated. But what was the real story of Joseph Weil?

    By Dean Jobb | June 15, 2021

    The Eccentric, Unusual, and Layered Plotting of Dolores Hitchens' <em>The Cat Saw Murder</em>

    The Eccentric, Unusual, and Layered Plotting of Dolores Hitchens' The Cat Saw Murder

    "Beneath the surface narrative, fast-moving as a stream, is a deeper sort of tragic wisdom..."

    By Joyce Carol Oates | June 9, 2021

    Why Ethel Rosenberg Matters

    Why Ethel Rosenberg Matters

    How did Ethel Rosenberg find the strength to bear her unjust persecution, and what can we learn from her today?

    By Anne Sebba | June 8, 2021

    The Most Daring POW Escape in History Began with the Construction of a Ouija Board

    The Most Daring POW Escape in History Began with the Construction of a Ouija Board

    In Margalit Fox's new book, she tells the story of Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, who used spiritualism to cast a spell over their captors.

    By Margalit Fox | June 4, 2021

    Jack Ruby Is the Key to the Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Theories. So Why Have We Forgotten About His Trial?

    Jack Ruby Is the Key to the Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Theories. So Why Have We Forgotten About His Trial?

    Conspiracy theories focus on Ruby and the supposed cover-up. But his Texas trial has mostly been lost to history.

    By Dan Abrams and David Fisher | June 2, 2021

    How Forensic Anthropologists Read the Skeletons of the Dead For Clues

    How Forensic Anthropologists Read the Skeletons of the Dead For Clues

    "Never trust the pathologist on a TV show who says that the skeleton has been in the ground for eleven years. Utter twaddle."

    By Sue Black | June 2, 2021

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