Field Trip
The Shamrock and the Sham
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though in an idyllic setting, I was poised above a mass grave.
Field Trip
“HAVE QUOTES ABOUT SALIERI”
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How someone already convinced of a conspiracy theory reads non-conspiratorial sources.
Features
Ain’t I Some Pumpkins?
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Soon after he was elected, Abraham Lincoln received a rather bizarre letter.
History & Mystery
The Clue in the Old Lace
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Fashion history is rarely as straightforward as Nancy Drew led me to believe.
Mailbag
What If… Historians Were Honest About Counterfactuals?
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A single choice can branch out to infinite realities.
Shorts
The Committee to Keep Dick Tasting
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Hi, any chance you might have sent Richard Nixon a dick joke fifty years ago?
Features
The Strange Case of Booker T. Washington’s Birthday
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If Booker T. Washington never knew when he was born, how are we so sure about it now?
Features
The Star in the Stones
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The scanned image looked sharper than the framed photograph at my grandmother’s house. And only now did I notice a strange detail.
Shorts
The Trouble with Triscuits
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Though the “electricity biscuit” thesis is plausible, killjoy historians need more evidence.
Features
Oscar’s Hill
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A decades-long quest, bordering on obsession, leads one man to a small village in the Sierra Juarez—and, perhaps, to the Hill of the Jaguar.
Features
Arming the Past: An Interview with Michael Bellesiles
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He wrote one of the most contentious works of history from the last century. And he sat down with Daniel Gullotta for his first public discussion of the controversy in nearly a decade.
