american history

48 Snapshots Of Life In The Real Wild West

These authentic vintage photographs of the American frontier reveal what life was actually like in the "Wild West."

By Mark Oliver • Apr 25, 2017

48 Snapshots Of Life In The Real Wild West

These authentic vintage photographs of the American frontier reveal what life was actually like in the "Wild West."

By Mark Oliver • April 25, 2017

27 Raw Images That Document The Birth Of The Blues

No one person created the blues. It was a sound born from slaves on plantations, shaped in prison chain gangs, and turned into a new style of music on the back porches of poor, African-American homes in the late 1800s. In the 1930s, folklorists John, Alan, and Ruby Lomax traveled...

By Mark Oliver • Apr 22, 2017

27 Raw Images That Document The Birth Of The Blues

No one person created the blues. It was a sound born from slaves on plantations, shaped in prison chain gangs, and turned into a new style of music on the back porches of poor, African-American homes in the late 1800s. In the 1930s, folklorists John, Alan, and Ruby Lomax traveled...

By Mark Oliver • April 22, 2017

Domestic Spying, Blackmail, And Murder: Inside The FBI’s COINTELPRO

How the Cold War-era FBI took down countless U.S. citizens deemed to be enemies of the state and got away with it.

By Richard Stockton • Apr 18, 2017

Domestic Spying, Blackmail, And Murder: Inside The FBI’s COINTELPRO

How the Cold War-era FBI took down countless U.S. citizens deemed to be enemies of the state and got away with it.

By Richard Stockton • April 18, 2017

The Dark Side Of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., The Patriarch Of The Kennedy Family

Joseph Kennedy Sr., JFK's father and the patriarch of "America's Royal Family," left behind a complicated legacy, including anti-Semitism and Nazi sympathies.

By Kellen Perry • Apr 17, 2017

The Dark Side Of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., The Patriarch Of The Kennedy Family

Joseph Kennedy Sr., JFK's father and the patriarch of "America's Royal Family," left behind a complicated legacy, including anti-Semitism and Nazi sympathies.

By Kellen Perry • April 17, 2017

27 Scathing H.L. Mencken Quotes On Politics, Religion, And The American Public

Famed for his rapier wit as much as his ill-temperament, Henry Louis (H.L.) Mencken rose to national prominence as a journalist and correspondent for the Baltimore Sun. A student of Friedrich Nietzsche and Mark Twain, Mencken was a detractor of representative democracy, religion, and social norms, and thus stood in...

By Alexander Baldwin • Apr 16, 2017

27 Scathing H.L. Mencken Quotes On Politics, Religion, And The American Public

Famed for his rapier wit as much as his ill-temperament, Henry Louis (H.L.) Mencken rose to national prominence as a journalist and correspondent for the Baltimore Sun. A student of Friedrich Nietzsche and Mark Twain, Mencken was a detractor of representative democracy, religion, and social norms, and thus stood in...

By Alexander Baldwin • April 16, 2017

The Untold Story Of Kate Warne, The World’s First Female Private Eye

Kate Warne was so good at her job that barely anyone knows her name today.

By Savannah Cox • Apr 14, 2017

The Untold Story Of Kate Warne, The World’s First Female Private Eye

Kate Warne was so good at her job that barely anyone knows her name today.

By Savannah Cox • April 14, 2017

The 5 Most Important Battles That Shaped Modern America And Europe

Between 1939 and 1945, hundreds of brutal battles brought about the deaths of as many as 25 million soldiers (not to mention tens of millions of civilians). And that’s just World War II. The complete human toll of all the battles in all the wars fought in modern European and...

By All That's Interesting • Apr 10, 2017

The 5 Most Important Battles That Shaped Modern America And Europe

Between 1939 and 1945, hundreds of brutal battles brought about the deaths of as many as 25 million soldiers (not to mention tens of millions of civilians). And that’s just World War II. The complete human toll of all the battles in all the wars fought in modern European and...

By All That's Interesting • April 10, 2017

Not Making Headlines: Major News Stories Lost To The Media Grind

Sometimes a big story gets lost only because its unfortunate timing pits it in a competition for our attention with another, much larger story elsewhere.

By Richard Stockton • Apr 10, 2017

Not Making Headlines: Major News Stories Lost To The Media Grind

Sometimes a big story gets lost only because its unfortunate timing pits it in a competition for our attention with another, much larger story elsewhere.

By Richard Stockton • April 10, 2017

Ernest Hemingway Was A Soviet Spy, Ex-CIA Author’s New Book Claims

According to one former Marine and CIA officer, Ernest Hemingway worked for both US and USSR intelligence during and after World War II.

By John Kuroski • Apr 7, 2017

News

Ernest Hemingway Was A Soviet Spy, Ex-CIA Author’s New Book Claims

According to one former Marine and CIA officer, Ernest Hemingway worked for both US and USSR intelligence during and after World War II.

By John Kuroski • April 7, 2017

This Week In History, Apr. 2 – 8

World War II Veteran Comes Out As Transgender Woman At Age 90 A World War II veteran living in Leicestershire, England has come out to the world as a woman. Although The New York Post reports that Patricia Davies knew that she was a woman ever since she was a...

By All That's Interesting • Apr 7, 2017

Science News

This Week In History, Apr. 2 – 8

World War II Veteran Comes Out As Transgender Woman At Age 90 A World War II veteran living in Leicestershire, England has come out to the world as a woman. Although The New York Post reports that Patricia Davies knew that she was a woman ever since she was a...

By All That's Interesting • April 7, 2017