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First-Hand Account of Hiroshima: Before, During, and After the Atomic Bomb Drop
Sep 24, 2024Over the past few years, much has been written and created around Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project, but little attention is paid to those whose lives were ended or forever changed when the bombs ...
America’s Professional Sports Grew From Farm Teams to Multi-Billion Dollar Franches Thanks to the Harlem Globetrotters Founder
Sep 19, 2024The original Harlem Globetrotters weren’t from Harlem, and they didn’t start out as globetrotters. The talented team, started by Jewish immigrant Abe Saperstein, was from Chicago’s South Side and tour...
Why Did Presidents Seem Incredibly Rich Yet Were Completely Broke Most of the Time?
Sep 17, 2024Was Harry Truman really our poorest president or simply a man up at 2 a.m. struggling with financial anxiety? Did Calvin Coolidge get bad advice from his stockbroker to buy stocks in 1930 as the marke...
A 1,300 History of the Middle East in Seven Religious Wars
Sep 12, 2024From the taking of the holy city of Jerusalem in the 7th century AD by Caliph Umar, to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire following the end of World War I, Christian popes, emperors and kings, and Mus...
When Good Ideas Were Bad Medicine: Why Vitamin C and Handwashing was Rejected by the Medical Establishment
Sep 10, 2024More Americans have peanut allergies today than at any point in history. Why? In 2000, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a strict recommendation that parents avoid giving their children peanut...
Appleton Oaksmith: The Confederate Blockade Runner Who Became Lincoln’s Public Enemy #1
Sep 05, 2024Appleton Oaksmith was a swashbuckling Civil War-era sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-19th century, from the California ...
The Bible Triggered Two Communications Revolutions: The Codex and the Printing Press
Sep 03, 2024For Christians, the Bible is a book inspired by God. But it has been received by different cultures and language groups in (sometimes) radically different ways. Following Jesus’s departing instructio...
Steering an Aerial Plywood Box Through Enemy Fire: The Glider Pilots of WW2
Aug 29, 2024In World War II, there were no C-130s or large cargo aircraft that could deliver heavy equipment– such as a truck or artillery piece – in advance of an airborne invasion. For that, you needed to put t...
Why Few Presidents Had Beards, And Only One Had a Mullet
Aug 27, 2024From George Washington’s powdered pigtail to John Quincy Adams’ bushy side-whiskers and from James Polk’s masterful mullet to John F. Kennedy’s refined Ivy League coif, the tresses of American leaders...
How Much Did Average Germans Know About the Holocaust During World War Two?
Aug 22, 2024This is the question that historians have argued since the end of World War Two. How much did an average person know, and, more importantly, how responsible were they? What made people “perpetrators,...