The genius detective from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has inspired a mountain of imitations.
By Tom Keogh
Jay "Ding" Darling was the best friend a duck ever had.
By Laura Wolff Scanlan
Alaska's sea-otter hunting left records of village life.
By Amy Lifson
Florida's coast was a deadly place for seventeenth-century castaways.
By Amy Turner Bushnell
Kansans relive the guerrilla raids of the Border Wars.
By Steven Hill
Robert Smalls commandeered a Confederate ship to escape from slavery in South Carolina.
By Meredith Good
Fifty years ago, James Meredith integrated the University of Mississippi.
Massachusetts nearly secedes during the War of 1812.
By Kevin Mahnken
A steel town in New Jersey made the Golden Gate Bridge possible.
By Edward Tenner
A cache of photographs reveals the history of a historic Rhode Island house.
By Nina Markov
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Supremely Contentious
The Transformation of “Advice and Consent”
By Meredith Hindley
Who Was Westbrook Pegler?
The original right-wing takedown artist
By David Witwer
The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein
Was the den mother of modernism a fascist?
By Barbara Will
Friends of Rousseau
Some of the people he has influenced don't even realize it.
By Leo Damrosch
The Other Jefferson Davis
The U.S. Capitol, as we know it today, would never have existed without Jefferson Davis.
By Guy Gugliotta