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The History of the Florida Everglades Is a History of Crime and Mystery
T.L. Finlay relays a few sinister stories from this natural marvel.
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T.L. Finlay
| August 22, 2022
The Lost History of America's Traveling "Ghost Shows"
Ghost shows were a hybrid of movie, magic act and séance and they ruled late nights across America
By
Keith Roysdon
| August 18, 2022
One Night in Tehran, August 1953: The Law of Unintended Consequences
Tom Bradby on lingering imperialism, the coup, and the moments that reverberated through history.
By
Tom Bradby
| August 4, 2022
The Greatest True Spy Stories
A look at some of the wildest, most revelatory nonfiction books about espionage and the life of spies.
By
Ava Glass
| August 2, 2022
How Louis Armstrong, Jazz, and the Mafia Got All Tangled Up in Storyville
In New Orleans, in the early days of jazz, the music and the mob were inextricable.
By
T.J. English
| August 2, 2022
The Outsider Journalist: The Story Behind a 70 Year Old Cold Case Murder and the Push for Alaska's Statehood
Decades after the murder of Cecil Wells, journalist James Bartlett goes to Alaska looking for new answers.
By
James T. Bartlett
| July 27, 2022
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Little Essays on Sherlock Holmes: "The Engineer's Thumb"
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Olivia Rutigliano
| July 20, 2022
The Rise of Privateering in the American Revolution
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Eric Jay Dolin
| July 15, 2022
Adventures in Writing Time Travel
By
Kelley Armstrong
| July 13, 2022
When Kurt Vonnegut Met Norman Mailer in Cape Cod's Legendary "Helltown"
Provincetown was a place of enchantment, light, and art. But there was a dark side to the literary life there, too.
By
Casey Sherman
| July 12, 2022
Boris Nayfeld, the Jewish Gangster-Survivor, and the Birth of the Russian Mob in Brooklyn
Douglas Century visits with the last of the original Brighton Beach mob bosses.
By
Douglas Century
| July 6, 2022
Mussolini's Son-in-Law Kept a Diary – And It Put Him Right in the Crosshairs of Hitler and the Nazi Spy Apparatus
Galeazzo Ciano was Italy's foreign minister, a witness to key events in history. And he was writing it all down.
By
Tilar J. Mazzeo
| June 21, 2022
Unusual and Iconic Tales of Intentional Poisonings
Kate Khavari on the long and sordid history of murder by poison
By
Kate Khavari
| June 17, 2022
The Mysterious Case of the CIA's Man in Moscow
Alexander Ogorodnik was recruited in a Turkish bath in Bogotá, Colombia. Then, he was summoned back to Moscow.
By
Howard Blum
| June 8, 2022
What Happens When Britain's Secret Spies Aren't So Secret Anymore?
Britain's legendarily cloistered intelligence agencies are making an effort toward openness and inclusivity. What are we to make of it?
By
James Wolff
| May 25, 2022
James Lee Burke on Personal Tragedy, National Trauma, and the Search for Salvation
"The story of Eden, and how it influences my work, is not the story of a snake in a tree, but the story of what we are doing to the tree – what we are doing to the Garden."
By
David Masciotra
| May 24, 2022
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