• History

    In Victorian London, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream Was a New Kind of Killer

    Jack the Ripper wasn't the only serial killer stalking the city's vulnerable. In Lambeth, there was Dr. Cream.

    July 15, 2021  By Dean Jobb
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    Berlin in 1946 Was a Cultural Battlefield Unlike Any Before

    The earliest battles of the Cold War took place in Berlin, where Soviets unleashed a complex program to win over German culture.

    July 13, 2021  By Giles Milton
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    How Voltaire Helped Spread the Legend of Europe's Most Famous Prisoner, The Man in the Iron Mask

    In 18th century Europe, there was no greater conspiracy theory than the one surrounding "L'homme au masque de fer"

    July 8, 2021  By Josephine Wilkinson
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    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?

    July 6, 2021  By Amy Sohn
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    American Dreamers: On Frank Lucas, Jay-Z and a New York City Crime Epic

    Talking with Jay-Z about growing up in New York, the gangster dream, and finding inspiration from a bygone era.

    June 30, 2021  By Michael Gonzales
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    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.

    June 25, 2021  By David A. Price
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    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.

    June 22, 2021  By Samantha Barbas
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    The Mississippi Farmer Who Helped Take Down the Jones County Klan

    Tom Landrum was strongly opposed to joining the KKK—that is, until an FBI agent asked him to infiltrate the organization.

    June 22, 2021  By Curtis Wilkie
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    A Murder in Tiger Bay: How Nadifa Mohamed's New Novel Revives a Decades-Old Tragedy

    In 1952, Mahmood Mattan was executed by the British government for a crime he didn't commit. Decades later, a new novel reimagines his world in the working-class docklands of Cardiff.

    June 21, 2021  By Paul French
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    Ivory Shoals

    John Brandon

    "'Lion ain’t cross chasin a deer.'"

    June 16, 2021  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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