• History

    The Night the Berlin Wall
    Went Up

    In August 1961, Berliners woke up to find their city divided in two and themselves at the center of the Cold War.

    August 24, 2021  By Helena Merriman
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    A Personal Journey Through the World of Alternative Comics in 1970s New York City

    On Star*Reach, Heavy Metal, the rise of alternative comics, and one New York kid's journey to publish his own.

    August 20, 2021  By Michael Gonzales
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    Naomi Hirahara on Writing a New Historical Mystery About Post-Internment Life for Japanese-Americans

    The author's groundbreaking new novel takes on 1940's life for Japanese-Americans leaving California for Chicago.

    August 13, 2021  By Désirée Zamorano
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    Why the Nazis Launched a Bizarre, Racist War on Modern Art

    As the National Socialist party rose to power in Weimar Germany, they took aim at the country's "degenerate" artists.

    August 13, 2021  By Charlie English
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    A Brief History of the CIA's Efforts to Infiltrate Africa by Funding an Elaborate Network of Nonprofit Goodwill Organizations

    In the early days of the Cold War, the CIA launched journals, concerts, and co-opted high-profile African-American NGOs.

    August 13, 2021  By Dr. Susan Williams
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    The Strange Story of Mexico's First Narco, the Drug Panic He Helped Incite, and the Revolution to Come

    In 1908, José del Moral and his stash of marijuana cigarettes were public enemy number one, and it all had to do with the classes who were smoking the herb.

    August 10, 2021  By Benjamin T. Smith
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    Suicide, Despair, Lunacy, and Hysteria (and Surprisingly Little Murder) Among WASPS

    New England elites were, by the end of the 19th century, feeling supplanted, useless, and wracked by melancholy.

    August 5, 2021  By Michael Knox Beran
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    A Cozy Mystery Writer on the History of Class and Tea

    Wealthy drawing rooms, middle class parlors, working-class tea houses: on the many ways that the British take their tea.

    July 26, 2021  By Vicki Delany
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    Defections and Detections: How a Sprawling Soviet Atomic Spy Network Was First Exposed

    In postwar America, Soviet spies were busy gathering up atomic secrets. A series of defections soon threw the network into chaos.

    July 20, 2021  By Ann Hagedorn
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    The Story of 18th Century England's Booming Graverobbing Industry, and the Man Who Inspired 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'

    John Hunter was one of the era's foremost anatomists and surgeons. He was also the premier customer for stolen bodies.

    July 20, 2021  By Sam Kean
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