The CIA's Dark History of Employing Former Nazis in Postwar Europe

The CIA's Dark History of Employing Former Nazis in Postwar Europe

The young agency looked for German expertise in battling communism. In one Prussian aristocrat, it found the rotten core of Nazi extremism—and put him to work for the US.

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How Dashiell Hammett's Contintental Op Became a Depression-Era Icon

How Dashiell Hammett's Contintental Op Became a Depression-Era Icon

After an era of gentleman detectives, Hammett brought the world a detective grounded in (and ground down by) hard-edged reality.

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Rethinking The American Home Front During World War II

Rethinking The American Home Front During World War II

8 mysteries that explore the simmering tensions and contradictions of the war at home.

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A Cold War Hot Spot, A Neighborhood Crime, and the Meaning of Home

A Cold War Hot Spot, A Neighborhood Crime, and the Meaning of Home

Growing up in the Fulda Gap was tense enough. Then the murder of a child in my small town took away my last illusions of shelter.

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A Legendary Chicago Hotel and the Gilded Age Murder Trial That Embroiled a City

A Legendary Chicago Hotel and the Gilded Age Murder Trial That Embroiled a City

In 1882, in Chicago's most opulent hotel, a woman shot a man dead. Her defense would start a citywide debate about morality.

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The World Through Bonnie Parker's Eyes

The World Through Bonnie Parker's Eyes

On the trail of the Parker Gang, camera in hand...

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