
‘Nuclear Folly’ Review: When the Superpowers Nearly Started World War III
A new history of the Cuban Missile Crisis distills 60 years of official and secret narratives about the world's scariest moment
A new history of the Cuban Missile Crisis distills 60 years of official and secret narratives about the world's scariest moment
Midnight Cowboy: The best film that should never have been made
Blake Bailey demonstrates that it's not always prudent to get the last word, even from the grave
The Americans won because the King's best strategist guessed wrong about where Washington and his allies would fight
When political parties' fight for power turns violent, the only man capable of restoring order was the defender of Little Round Top
A Kilkenny farmer's son executed America's most revered neoclassical building and rebuilt it after British invasion
Finally, the justices overturned Jim Crow, tossing out Plessy v. Ferguson 'separate but equal' standard
On the road year-round, he brought clean-cut entertainment and small-town spectacle to burgs up and down the Lone Star State
It took a century and a half and the tireless work of dissenting Friends to create the first White-dominated antislavery movement
Mary Todd Lincoln's closest confidante was a seamstress born in slavery
History often recounts successful covert actions, but historian Vince Houghton spins a new perspective—failed plots built on the ridiculous
Drawing on his own translations, author Kevin H. Siepel chronicles the escapades of famous Spanish Colonizers.
A wooden chest, a breeches pocket, and a year-old fight over a seat in Congress
The Great Depression made a laughing stock of 'Great Engineer' Herbert Hoover's faith in efficiency
Trump's crowd-pleasing catchphrase is more than a century old
The Empire State inherited a huge hunk of its soul from the Netherlands