Politics
20 Explosive Supreme Court Judgements that Changed History
Since the establishment of the United States Supreme Court on March 4, 1789, as the highest court in the federal…
FRACTURE JAW: The Plan to Nuke North Vietnam
1968 was a bad year for the American war effort in Vietnam, and for general William Westmoreland, the overall US…
20 Unusual Deaths from the History Books
Death is a regrettable but nonetheless unavoidable element of the human condition. Whilst most people pass into the great abyss…
Outlandish Stories from Inside the Executive Mansion
The official residence and workplace of the President of the United States, the White House has played host to all…
20 Historical Figures that We Would Love to Bring Back from the Dead
As in fiction, the past is full of interesting people who have imbued the future with their legacies. Whether great…
Conspiracy Theories About Our Founding Fathers
Conspiracy theories are inherently enticing, offering the fantastical stories of fiction combined with the real-world stakes and personalities of history.…
Greed Created These Horrific Financial Crises
Before economists coined the terms recession and the more foreboding depression to describe economic downturns such events were called panics.…
20 Historic Events Even the Movies Won’t Touch
Hollywood has never had a shortage of dumb movie plots. Nor did it have a dearth of far-fetched scenes that…
These 30 Rulers in History Were Hated by All
Even the most vile rulers in history are sometimes given a break by historians and screenwriters, their crimes minimized as…
The Real ‘Young Pope’ Was Probably History’s Worst Holy Father
Over a thousand years before Jude Law played a scandalous pope in TV’s The Young Pope, history’s actual youngest Pope ever,…