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The 160-Minute Race to Save the Titanic
Jan 16, 2025One hundred and sixty minutes. That is all the time rescuers would have before the largest ship in the world slipped beneath the icy Atlantic. There was amazing heroism and astounding incompetence aga...
200 Years Before the French Revolution, German Peasants Tried to Overthrow The Holy Roman Empire
Jan 14, 2025The German Peasants’ War of 1524-1525 was the largest popular uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. Somewhere between seventy and a hundred thousand peasants—roughly 2% of the male ...
What the Middle Ages Can Teach Us About Pandemics, Mass Migration, and Tech Disruption
Jan 09, 2025The medieval world – for all its plagues, papal indulgences, castles, and inquisition trials – has much in common with ours. People living the Middle Ages dealt with deadly pandemicsmass migration, an...
Did Orson Welles’s 1938 ‘War of the Worlds’ Broadcast Really Cause a Mass Panic?
Jan 07, 2025On a warm Halloween Eve, October 30, 1938, during a broadcast of H G. Wells' War of the Worlds, Orson Welles held his hands up for radio silence in the CBS studio in New York City while millions of pe...
A Talk With The Polar Geographer Who Discovered Shackleton’s Endurance Under 10,000 ft of Frozen Water
Jan 02, 2025On August 1, 1914, British explorer Sir Ernest Shackelton and his crew sailed from England, set on making history as the first to cross Antarctica. Their ship never returned from her maiden voyage. On...
The Founding Fathers Were 20 and 30-Somethings. Why Is America Now a Gerontocracy?
Dec 31, 2024A house on the Florida coast. An assisted living program. A lively retirement community. Medicare. Our modern concept of old age—and even the idea of old age as a distinct stage of life—are products o...
A Pre-WWI French Philosopher Was More Popular Than Elvis and Possibly Entered the US Into the Great War
Dec 26, 2024In New York City, 1913, French philosopher Henri Bergson gave a lecture at Columbia University, resulting in fanfare, traffic jams, and even fainting spells among the thousands of people clamoring for...
While Starving at Besieged Leningrad, Scientists Hid Drought-Resistant Crop Seeds That Could Prevent Future Famines
Dec 24, 2024In the summer of 1941, German troops surrounded the Russian city of Leningrad—now St. Petersburg—and began the longest blockade in recorded history, one that would ultimately claim the lives of nearly...
Surviving Nearly 2 Years of Shipwreck on a South Pacific Island in the 1880s
Dec 19, 2024Today, half of the world’s population lives around the Pacific Rim. This ocean has been the crossroads of international travel, trade, and commerce for at least 500 years. The economy was driven by w...
How Did 450 Boers Defeat 15,000 Zulus at the Battle of Blood River in 1838?
Dec 17, 2024By the 1830s, the Zulu kingdom was consolidating its power as the strongest African polity in the south-east, but was under growing pressure from British traders and hunters on the coast, and descenda...