• History

    The Strange Real-Life Mystery Behind Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"

    Fact meets fiction in Poe’s classic story of a murderer.

    February 13, 2023  By Dean Jobb
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    The Year Ian Fleming Finally Started Writing His Novel

    Was he mostly just eager to avoid the looming responsibilities of real life?

    February 8, 2023  By John Higgs
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    The Launch of a 19th Century Sex-Cult in Upstate New York

    John Humphrey Noyes was a reserved, shy young man – until he found religion and his own utopian, free-love, open marriage cult.

    February 7, 2023  By Susan Wels
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    The Best Nonfiction Crime Books of the Month

    Spy histories, Waco Texas, and police corruption in Oakland.

    January 27, 2023  By CrimeReads 
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    Warren G. Harding: 100 Years Since the Death of a President Straight Out of a Coen Brothers' Movie

    Did the Harding Administration's rampant corruption and incompetency pave the way for a new century of politics?

    January 23, 2023  By Zack Budryk
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    A Guide to Victorian Death Rites

    Laura Joh Rowland's illustrated guide to death in Victorian society.

    January 11, 2023  By Laura Joh Rowland
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    My Favorite Con Artists

    Victoria Thompson on some of history's most inventive swindlers, and the stories they passed down.

    December 21, 2022  By Victoria Thompson
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    The Great Diamond Hoax: “A Deliberate and Oddly Planned Masterpiece of Roguery”

    In 1870 San Francisco, two cousins walked into a mine broker's office and kicked off one of the most bizarre and lucrative swindles in American history.

    December 15, 2022  By J. Kingston Pierce
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    The Best Critical Nonfiction / Biography Books of 2022

    John le Carré's letters, a reckoning with junk science, a nation of wiretappers, and more.

    December 13, 2022  By CrimeReads 
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    How Hollywood Made J. Edgar Hoover and the F.B.I. Into the Mythical "G-Men"

    Just like movie studios, the Bureau was starting a new era—and it was time for a public relations campaign.

    December 7, 2022  By Beverly Gage
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