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Momentous Historical Firsts That Happened Way Before Most People Think They Did

Charles Lindbergh was rather handsome. Strikingly tall, bedecked in classic leather pilot’s cap and goggles, “Lucky Lindy” could sit in the cockpit of the Spirit of St. Louis and look every bit the part of the romantic hero of aviation’s so-called golden age. When The New York Times ran its...

By John Kuroski • Feb 14, 2017

Momentous Historical Firsts That Happened Way Before Most People Think They Did

Charles Lindbergh was rather handsome. Strikingly tall, bedecked in classic leather pilot’s cap and goggles, “Lucky Lindy” could sit in the cockpit of the Spirit of St. Louis and look every bit the part of the romantic hero of aviation’s so-called golden age. When The New York Times ran its...

By John Kuroski • February 14, 2017

New Photo Series Casts Playful Eye Toward Food And Power

As the 2016 presidential primary trail dragged on, GOP hopeful John Kasich found himself defending what had seemingly become a hot topic: pizza. More specifically, how he ate it. “Look, the pizza came scalding hot,” the Ohio governor told ABC in March. Kasich had drawn popular ire when, earlier that...

By Savannah Cox • Feb 14, 2017

New Photo Series Casts Playful Eye Toward Food And Power

As the 2016 presidential primary trail dragged on, GOP hopeful John Kasich found himself defending what had seemingly become a hot topic: pizza. More specifically, how he ate it. “Look, the pizza came scalding hot,” the Ohio governor told ABC in March. Kasich had drawn popular ire when, earlier that...

By Savannah Cox • February 14, 2017

Rarely Seen Photos Taken Just After History Was Made

You've seen iconic moments as they've happened, but rarely do you see what life's like just after history's been made.

By John Kuroski • Feb 6, 2017

Rarely Seen Photos Taken Just After History Was Made

You've seen iconic moments as they've happened, but rarely do you see what life's like just after history's been made.

By John Kuroski • February 6, 2017

Inside Sikkim, The Lost Kingdom Of The Himalayas

On April 6, 1975, Palden Thondup Namgyal, the last ruler of the Himalayan Kingdom of Sikkim, was practicing his morning ritual when short rapid bursts of machine gun fire broke through his palace windows. Running to the window, he saw 5,000 Indian soldiers pour out of army trucks and surround...

By John Kuroski • Feb 2, 2017

Inside Sikkim, The Lost Kingdom Of The Himalayas

On April 6, 1975, Palden Thondup Namgyal, the last ruler of the Himalayan Kingdom of Sikkim, was practicing his morning ritual when short rapid bursts of machine gun fire broke through his palace windows. Running to the window, he saw 5,000 Indian soldiers pour out of army trucks and surround...

By John Kuroski • February 2, 2017

When Cigarettes Were For Kids

The narrator of Horatio Alger’s rags-to-riches post-Civil War American classic, Ragged Dick (1868), offered perhaps the best, most sympathetic description of a contemporary epidemic almost unthinkable in the 21st century: childhood addiction to cigarettes. “Men are frequently injured by smoking, and boys always,” Alger wrote, specifically referring to the “newsboys...

By Kellen Perry • Feb 1, 2017

When Cigarettes Were For Kids

The narrator of Horatio Alger’s rags-to-riches post-Civil War American classic, Ragged Dick (1868), offered perhaps the best, most sympathetic description of a contemporary epidemic almost unthinkable in the 21st century: childhood addiction to cigarettes. “Men are frequently injured by smoking, and boys always,” Alger wrote, specifically referring to the “newsboys...

By Kellen Perry • February 1, 2017

This Week In History, Jan. 22 – 28

A map of U.S. lynchings, Nellie Bly's famous journey, the largest diamond ever, the birth of Angela Davis, and Germany's holocaust before the Holocaust.

By All That's Interesting • Jan 27, 2017

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This Week In History, Jan. 22 – 28

A map of U.S. lynchings, Nellie Bly's famous journey, the largest diamond ever, the birth of Angela Davis, and Germany's holocaust before the Holocaust.

By All That's Interesting • January 27, 2017

A Republic Collapsed: Inside The Spanish Civil War

By January of 1939, the dream of a true Spanish Republic had shattered. Many of those who composed its short-lived reality — Republican men and women, and elected officials of the democratically-elected Republican government — headed for the Pyrenees mountains and the French border, blanketed in cold and perhaps the...

By All That's Interesting • Jan 24, 2017

A Republic Collapsed: Inside The Spanish Civil War

By January of 1939, the dream of a true Spanish Republic had shattered. Many of those who composed its short-lived reality — Republican men and women, and elected officials of the democratically-elected Republican government — headed for the Pyrenees mountains and the French border, blanketed in cold and perhaps the...

By All That's Interesting • January 24, 2017

Holocaust Photos That Reveal Heartbreaking Tragedy Only Hinted At In The History Books

These Holocaust photos reveal what perhaps history's greatest tragedy truly looked like for those who experienced it firsthand.

By John Kuroski • Jan 23, 2017

Holocaust Photos That Reveal Heartbreaking Tragedy Only Hinted At In The History Books

These Holocaust photos reveal what perhaps history's greatest tragedy truly looked like for those who experienced it firsthand.

By John Kuroski • January 23, 2017

What We Loved This Week, Jan. 15 – 21

Obama then and now, vintage celeb selfies, the Obama girls' first White House experience, gay life in the 1960s, the worst U.S. presidential inaugurations.

By All That's Interesting • Jan 20, 2017

What We Loved This Week, Jan. 15 – 21

Obama then and now, vintage celeb selfies, the Obama girls' first White House experience, gay life in the 1960s, the worst U.S. presidential inaugurations.

By All That's Interesting • January 20, 2017

What We Loved This Week, Jan. 8 – 14

The Titanic's wreckage, surreal landscape photography, crime in Caracas, WWII's female pilots, century-old Native American masks.

By All That's Interesting • Jan 13, 2017

What We Loved This Week, Jan. 8 – 14

The Titanic's wreckage, surreal landscape photography, crime in Caracas, WWII's female pilots, century-old Native American masks.

By All That's Interesting • January 13, 2017