• History

    Rethinking The American Home Front During World War II

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

    July 22, 2020  By Paul D. Marks
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    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.

    July 21, 2020  By Alexandra Burt
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    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.

    July 20, 2020  By Dean Jobb
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    The World Through Bonnie Parker's Eyes

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

    July 17, 2020  By Christina Schwarz
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    The Cold War and the Mysterious Death of Dag Hammarskjöld

    Murder in the Skies, An International Cover-Up, and No Resolution

    July 8, 2020  By Ravi Somaiya
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    Tiny Mysteries From the Files of the New York Times

    Because history is full of the small, the inexplicable, and the downright confounding....

    June 25, 2020  By W.M. Akers
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    Virginia Kellogg: The Forgotten Screenwriter Behind A String of Classic Noirs

    She wrote some of the greatest crime movies in Hollywood's Golden Age. Today, we know almost nothing about her.

    June 19, 2020  By Chris McGinley
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    The Sufi Spy Who Fought The Fascists in Nazi-Occupied Paris

    Snapshot from History: Noor Inayat Khan, codename "Madeleine," arrives in France to join a resistance circle as a radio operator.

    June 17, 2020  By Arthur J. Magida
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