ari wrote 3 weeks ago: [Editor's Note: When Jacob Remes isn't using his superpowers to fight crime, he toils as a PhD can … more →
silbey wrote 1 month ago: Churchill in 1940 On this day in 1940, Winston Churchill stepped to the Speaker’s Box … more →
silbey wrote 1 month ago: On this day in 1942, the USS Yorktown limped back into Pearl Harbor after the Battle of the Coral Se … more →
Kathy wrote 1 month ago: On this day sixty-five years ago, American forces broke out of the Anzio beachhead and began the lon … more →
silbey wrote 2 months ago: On this day in history, Second Lieutenant Daniel K. Inouye, a Japanese-American from Hawaii, led his … more →
Kathy wrote 3 months ago: On this day in 1993, the FBI assaulted the fortress of an apocalyptic Adventist sect near Waco, Texa … more →
SEK wrote 3 months ago: On this day in history, two men—one of whom would say that the other’s life work represe … more →
eric wrote 3 months ago: This day in 1925 was publication day for The Great Gatsby, whose author F. Scott Fitzgerald—amazingl … more →
Kathy wrote 3 months ago: On this day in 1962, two CIA officers met in New York with Las Vegas mobster Johnny Roselli to discu … more →
ari wrote 3 months ago: Forty-one years ago today, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King, Jr. dead on the balcony of t … more →
eric wrote 3 months ago: On this day in 1916, the Senate Judiciary Committee postponed decision on Woodrow Wilson’s nom … more →
eric wrote 3 months ago: On this day in 1968, 2001: A Space Odyssey premiered. I’ve revisited it a few times over the … more →
silbey wrote 3 months ago: On this week in history, the German Army launched its last-ditch 1918 offensive, aimed at breaking t … more →
silbey wrote 4 months ago: On or around this day in history, Mount Vesuvius last erupted in 1944, having the terminally bad man … more →
eric wrote 4 months ago: On this day in 1926, Congressman Victor Berger (Socialist-Wisconsin) met Calvin Coolidge at the Whit … more →
Kathy wrote 4 months ago: On this day in 1971, a group of activists broke into an FBI field office in Media, Pennsylvania and … more →
ari wrote 4 months ago: It’s always useful to remember how low expectations were for Abraham Lincoln when he to … more →
silbey wrote 4 months ago: On that day in history, the Japanese submarine I-17 surfaced off the West Coast of the United States … more →