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9f31ac271d9fb456d35376d2ff4bcfac | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1948-democratic-convention-878284/ | 1948 Democratic Convention | 1948 Democratic Convention
The Democrats came to Philadelphia on July 12, seventeen days after the Republicans, meeting in the same city, had nominated a dream ticket of two hugely popular governors: Thomas E. Dewey of New York for president and Earl Warren of California for vice president.
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1958ac086be8b7252218a4909c656e20 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1950s-tv-show-set-stage-modern-distance-learning-180976734/ | The 1950s TV Show That Set the Stage for Today’s Distance Learning | The 1950s TV Show That Set the Stage for Today’s Distance Learning
In May 1962, the New York Times profiled Cora Gay Carr, a 37-year-old housewife and mother of two who was set to receive her Bachelor of Arts in English from New York University (NYU). An impressive accomplishment in and of itself, Carr’s graduation mad... |
3ef0f98f79cc7b53e01b784cda8fc777 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1954-flying-car-for-sale-1281786/ | 1954 Flying Car for Sale | 1954 Flying Car for Sale
Ever dreamed of owning your own flying car… from the 1950s? If you happen to have $1.25 million lying around, you can make that happen!
It seems every year we see companies like Terrafugia and Moller promise that the flying car will soon be an everyday reality. But people often forget flying ca... |
439b0bac9919f584fc25e6df25b51848 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1964-republican-convention-revolution-from-the-right-915921/ | How the 1964 Republican Convention Sparked a Revolution From the Right | How the 1964 Republican Convention Sparked a Revolution From the Right
There were only three small elevators at the Mark Hopkins, the splendid old San Francisco hotel that served as headquarters for contenders Barry Goldwater and William Scranton during the 1964 Republican National Convention. The wait that hot July we... |
6757e7076993f30d9e9b2eee2743ea64 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1968-democratic-convention-931079/ | 1968 Democratic Convention | 1968 Democratic Convention
As delegates arrived in Chicago the last week of August 1968 for the 35th Democratic National Convention, they found that Mayor Richard J. Daley, second only to President Lyndon B. Johnson in political influence, had lined the avenues leading to the convention center with posters of trilling ... |
a6198ec41f79adf1aa1cae3f6039408f | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1968-democratic-convention-931079/?sessionGUID=21aa9062-e839-99a5-738a-3d0a10890162&no-ist=&page=1 | 1968 Democratic Convention | 1968 Democratic Convention
As delegates arrived in Chicago the last week of August 1968 for the 35th Democratic National Convention, they found that Mayor Richard J. Daley, second only to President Lyndon B. Johnson in political influence, had lined the avenues leading to the convention center with posters of trilling ... |
c4d2b84ea8d583300c85cbd1a04db2e6 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1968-three-students-were-killed-police-today-few-remember-orangeburg-massacre-180968092/ | In 1968, Three Students Were Killed by Police. Today, Few Remember the Orangeburg Massacre | In 1968, Three Students Were Killed by Police. Today, Few Remember the Orangeburg Massacre
Recalling the event decades later, Robert Lee Davis remembered the chaotic noise and fear that permeated the night of February 8, 1968. “Students were hollering, yelling and running,” Davis said. “I went into a slope near the fro... |
8e7c1b70b548dc6ba64cc4fd79efea04 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1980s-far-left-female-led-domestic-terrorism-group-bombed-us-capitol-180973904/ | In the 1980s, a Far-Left, Female-Led Domestic Terrorism Group Bombed the U.S. Capitol | In the 1980s, a Far-Left, Female-Led Domestic Terrorism Group Bombed the U.S. Capitol
Amidst the social and political turmoil of the 1970s, a handful of women—among them a onetime Barnard student, a Texas sorority sister, the daughter of a former communist journalist—joined and became leaders of the May 19th Communist ... |
5d675a6059132bd3bf3af029ce3d9263 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/2000-year-history-restaurants-and-other-new-books-read-180974739/?fbclid=IwAR2odqw2FbrpET81391kOgVOuk5zPVZQX2-kdhsSN6lqNzBju_lBFteSvRI | A 2,000-Year History of Restaurants and Other New Books to Read | A 2,000-Year History of Restaurants and Other New Books to Read
With much of the world on lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic, dining out has become a cherished memory of the “before” period. Though diners can still support local restaurants by ordering food for curbside pickup or delivery, actually sitting down at any... |
aec87e82a234c5a32a8a1abe275c10d7 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/35-who-made-a-difference-ed-bearss-113147798/ | What Made Ed Bearss a Rock Star of Civil War History | What Made Ed Bearss a Rock Star of Civil War History
Ed Bearss has what might best be called a battlefield voice, a kind of booming growl, like an ancient wax-cylinder record amplified to full volume—about the way you'd imagine William Tecumseh Sherman sounding the day he burned Atlanta, with a touch of Teddy Roosevelt... |
eeaf845191d05e8f990f0fa92465477a | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-wimbledon-156205892/?c=y&page=1 | A Brief History of Wimbledon | A Brief History of Wimbledon
For two weeks beginning in late June, the greatest tennis players in the world will converge on Wimbledon, a suburb on the southwestern outskirts of London. They will compete for a total of about $34.8 million in prize money, with the winners of the men's and women's singles competitions ta... |
614071a7580a1a35840b035dfc512b07 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-murder-in-salem-64885035/ | A Murder in Salem | A Murder in Salem
On the evening of April 6, 1830, the light of a full moon stole through the windows of 128 Essex Street, one of the grandest houses in Salem, Massachusetts. Graced with a beautifully balanced red brick facade, a portico with white Corinthian columns and a roof balustrade carved of wood, the three-stor... |
5f842bfc5bb0503b87be03591f204c2c | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-northern-family-confronts-its-slaveholding-past-88307/ | A Northern Family Confronts Its Slaveholding Past | A Northern Family Confronts Its Slaveholding Past
When Katrina Browne discovered that her New England ancestors, the DeWolfs, were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history, she invited DeWolf descendents to retrace the Triangle Trade route and confront this legacy. Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep Nor... |
e1c06f198c1b68f9e79b80d8be5ff4b6 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-symbol-that-failed-149514383/ | A Symbol That Failed | A Symbol That Failed
It's big for a brooch, about six inches across and maybe two and a half high. But because it's partly transparent, and cleverly hinged to fit the curves of a lady's body, it does not seem clunky. Tiny diamonds etch its design--olive branches with leaves--and, perched symmetrically upon them, eight ... |
315cb6ecf9abf9137a563e7646d2d3f0 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/abraham-lincoln-only-president-have-patent-131184751/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia | Abraham Lincoln Is the Only President Ever to Have a Patent | Abraham Lincoln Is the Only President Ever to Have a Patent
Upon hearing the name Abraham Lincoln, many images may come to mind: rail-splitter, country lawyer, young congressman, embattled president, Great Emancipator, assassin's victim, even the colossal face carved into Mount Rushmore. One aspect of this multidimensi... |
3c5a9edcec4d37ce14396610fb736c76 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/alexander-hamiltons-adultery-and-apology-18021947/ | Alexander Hamilton’s Adultery and Apology | Alexander Hamilton’s Adultery and Apology
In the summer of 1791, Alexander Hamilton received a visitor.
Maria Reynolds, a 23-year-old blonde, came to Hamilton’s Philadelphia residence to ask for help. Her husband, James Reynolds, had abandoned her—not that it was a significant loss, for Reynolds had grossly mistreated ... |
bce72f99e9ed97335e04077f2367c8c7 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/alfred-w-crosby-on-the-columbian-exchange-98116477/ | Alfred W. Crosby on the Columbian Exchange | Alfred W. Crosby on the Columbian Exchange
In 1972, Alfred W. Crosby wrote a book called The Columbian Exchange. In it, the historian tells the story of Columbus’s landing in 1492 through the ecological ramifications it had on the New World.
At the time of publication, Crosby’s approach to history, through biology, was... |
cf833174ede25ebfc289c9cf03287628 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/alice-ramseys-historic-cross-country-drive-29114570/ | Alice Ramsey’s Historic Cross-Country Drive | Alice Ramsey’s Historic Cross-Country Drive
On June 9, 1909, in a rain drenched New York City, a crowd of wet photographers gathered at 1930 Broadway to snap pictures of an “automobile” and the four poncho-cloaked women within. The car itself was a dark-green, four-cylinder, 30-horsepower 1909 Maxwell DA, a touring car... |
ce69e87e65897c38b210e9f95f8b0716 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/amazing-if-true-story-submarine-mechanic-who-blew-himself-then-surfaced-secret-agent-queen-victoria-180951905/ | The Amazing (If True) Story of the Submarine Mechanic Who Blew Himself Up Then Surfaced as a Secret Agent for Queen Victoria | The Amazing (If True) Story of the Submarine Mechanic Who Blew Himself Up Then Surfaced as a Secret Agent for Queen Victoria
At 8:45 on the evening of February 17, 1864, Officer of the Deck John Crosby glanced over the side of the Federal sloop-of-war Housatonic and across the glassy waters of a calm Atlantic. His ship... |
345c828ded075b026c2862c811ea5aa2 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/amazon-or-independence-hall-development-v-preservation-city-philadelphia-180967463/ | Two Centuries Ago, Pennsylvania Almost Razed Independence Hall to Make Way for Private Development | Two Centuries Ago, Pennsylvania Almost Razed Independence Hall to Make Way for Private Development
Goodbye Independence Hall, hello Amazon headquarters! That was the “news” recently spoofed by the popular parody website, The Onion. The article lampooned Philadelphia’s eagerness to house Amazon’s second command center a... |
a07b3bac0de3ca0886ba4da449de20ce | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/americans-illegally-immigrated-mexico-180973306/ | When Mexico’s Immigration Troubles Came From Americans Crossing the Border | When Mexico’s Immigration Troubles Came From Americans Crossing the Border
During the two centuries in which Mexico and the United States have shared a border, allegations of out-of-control immigration, with Mexican immigrants posing a threat to American security, have often been a staple of American politics and a sou... |
17eb0fedb07a382c50a0e971b37064e2 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/americans-who-saw-lady-liberty-false-idol-broken-promises-180972285/ | The Americans Who Saw Lady Liberty as a False Idol of Broken Promises | The Americans Who Saw Lady Liberty as a False Idol of Broken Promises
It was a crisp, clear fall day in New York City, and like many others, Lillie Devereaux Blake was eager to see the great French statue, donated by that country’s government to the United States as a token of friendship and a monument to liberty, fina... |
41d3cc55a419bf8da3042e2b76ff9138 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/americas-big-circus-spectacular-has-long-and-cherished-history-180962621/ | America’s Big Circus Spectacular Has a Long and Cherished History | America’s Big Circus Spectacular Has a Long and Cherished History
When Barnum and Bailey’s “Greatest Show on Earth” rolled into American towns in the 1880s, daily life abruptly stopped. Months before the show arrived, an advance team saturated the surrounding region with brilliantly colored lithographs of the extraordi... |
0799ed8416e00ae4297c01f4db3158f8 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/andrew-jackson-populist-even-deathbed-180962124/ | Andrew Jackson Was a Populist Even on His Deathbed | Andrew Jackson Was a Populist Even on His Deathbed
Andrew Jackson lay gasping in his bed at home in Tennessee, the lead slugs in his body at long last having their intended effect. It was the spring of 1845 and “Old Hickory”—hero of the War of 1812 and the nation’s seventh president, born 250 years ago, on March 15, 17... |
b6361e3c8d63d03ce846c91bad435c30 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/archaeologists-identify-famed-fort-where-indigenous-tlingits-fought-russian-forces-180976818/ | Archaeologists Identify Famed Fort Where Indigenous Tlingits Fought Russian Forces | Archaeologists Identify Famed Fort Where Indigenous Tlingits Fought Russian Forces
For thousands of years, the Tlingit people made their home in the islands of Southeast Alaska among other indigenous peoples, including the Haida, but at the turn of the 19th century, they came into contact with a group that would threat... |
8ca4b57feb31225a0b28eef2c6d36950 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/archaeologoists-only-just-beginning-reveal-secrets-hidden-ancient-manuscripts-180967455/ | Archaeologists Are Only Just Beginning to Reveal the Secrets Hidden in These Ancient Manuscripts | Archaeologists Are Only Just Beginning to Reveal the Secrets Hidden in These Ancient Manuscripts
Last summer, Giulia Rossetto, a specialist in ancient texts at the University of Vienna, was on a train home to Pordenone, in northern Italy, when she switched on her laptop and opened a series of photographs of a manuscrip... |
dda616534182c0a8ae5c544a655a6a21 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/assignment-afghanistan-85698509/ | Assignment Afghanistan | Assignment Afghanistan
As my eyes adjusted to the dark and gloomy schoolroom, I could see the men more clearly, their woolen shawls drawn up against their tough and leathery faces. They were farmers and herders who lived hard lives on meager land, survivors of foreign occupation and civil war, products of a traditional... |
de075a2670d407d3d679a6c456a9838c | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/atlanta-famed-cyclorama-tell-truth-civil-war-once-again-180970715/ | When I was a little boy growing up in South Carolina, my mom decided to take me and a neighborhood girl on a big history trip and visit the sights in Atlanta. Emphasis on the big. We saw Stone Mountain, the half-finished Confederate rival of Mount Rushmore. And at some point I recall clicking through the turnstile of a... | |
2de9fbb50b67e2e4ebe016dd83c59811 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/atlanta-famed-cyclorama-tell-truth-civil-war-once-again-180970715/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR3-t6kTFrCZ1i_6PIaFIRPQE_DwrfnO4JGHS-m2qmoH7MJLGyfXXqWtJa8 | When I was a little boy growing up in South Carolina, my mom decided to take me and a neighborhood girl on a big history trip and visit the sights in Atlanta. Emphasis on the big. We saw Stone Mountain, the half-finished Confederate rival of Mount Rushmore. And at some point I recall clicking through the turnstile of a... | |
d34e813a1a7c23cec4cbb7c44ca5ed1a | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/attempted-assassination-andrew-jackson-180962526/ | The Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson | The Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson
On January 30, 1835, politicians gathered in the Capitol Building for the funeral of South Carolina Representative Warren Davis. It was a dreary, misty day and onlookers observed that it was one of the rare occasions that could bring the fiercest of political rivals side by... |
da378d5ad765ef0fd334b057d0fef5bf | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/axeman-new-orleans-preyed-italian-immigrants-180968037/ | The Axeman of New Orleans Preyed on Italian Immigrants | The Axeman of New Orleans Preyed on Italian Immigrants
By August of 1918, the city of New Orleans was paralyzed by fear. In the dead of the night, the Axeman of New Orleans (as he came to be known) broke into a series of Italian groceries, attacking the grocers and their families. Some he left wounded; four people he ... |
206f673a7d519f663303042196d445d8 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/beach-lady-84237022/ | Beach Lady | Beach Lady
When I telephoned my friend MaVynee Betsch in American Beach, Florida, recently, I got her answering machine. It would be hard to overstate my amazement. An answering machine! In all the years I’ve known MaVynee, she’s never even had a home telephone. Actually, for many of those years, she didn’t have a home... |
f5bdbf311cecd4cbb6ff59c2c6f3e25c | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/becoming-anne-frank-180970542/?src=longreads | People love dead Jews. Living Jews, not so much.
This disturbing idea was suggested by an incident this past spring at the Anne Frank House, the blockbuster Amsterdam museum built out of Frank’s “Secret Annex,” or in Dutch, “Het Achterhuis [The House Behind],” a series of tiny hidden rooms where the teenage Jewish diar... | |
d3033b8c7c9c47fa97058bc3fddb697c | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/before-rosie-the-riveter-farmerettes-went-to-work-141638628/ | World War I: 100 Years Later | World War I: 100 Years Later
From 1917 to 1919, the Woman's Land Army of America brought more than 20,000 city and town women to rural America to take over farm work after men were called to war.
Most of these women had never before worked on a farm, but they were soon plowing fields, driving tractors, planting and ha... |
940e1b60bdaec815d5a936686a08bcbe | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/below-the-rim-119011046/ | Below the Rim | Below the Rim
It was early May, but a raw breeze was blowing as we tracked bootprints through an inch of new-fallen snow. Shortly after dawn, we had parked on the Desert View Drive and set off through the ponderosa forest toward the Grand Canyon, leaving behind the tourist traffic hurtling along the canyon’s South Rim.... |
daf8c876c8e432f658dddaded440e4eb | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/benedict-arnold-turned-traitor-american-revolution-180958786/ | Why Benedict Arnold Turned Traitor Against the American Revolution | Why Benedict Arnold Turned Traitor Against the American Revolution
He was short, solidly built (one acquaintance remembered that “there wasn’t any wasted timber in him”) and blessed with almost superhuman energy and endurance. He was handsome and charismatic, with black hair, gray eyes and an aquiline nose, and he carr... |
af47f3799689577e98a39a3054dc457b | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/black-lives-certainly-mattered-abraham-lincoln-180976963/ | Black Lives Certainly Mattered to Abraham Lincoln | Black Lives Certainly Mattered to Abraham Lincoln
Last month, the San Francisco Unified School District voted to rename Abraham Lincoln High School because of the former president’s policies toward Native Americans and African Americans.
As Jeremiah Jeffries, chairman of the renaming committee and a first grade teacher... |
e024ecd4faf5c074cd5385cb2f04910f | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/blank-dead-sea-scroll-fragments-text-180974894/ | Text Found on Supposedly Blank Dead Sea Scroll Fragments | Text Found on Supposedly Blank Dead Sea Scroll Fragments
Hidden bits of text written in Hebrew and Aramaic have been revealed on four fragments of Dead Sea Scrolls long thought to be blank. The pieces of parchment had been excavated by archaeologists and donated to a British researcher in the 1950s, reinforcing their a... |
048a7430118daa37e4d9c879dfaef176 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/bloody-attempt-kidnap-british-princess-180950202/ | The Bloody Attempt to Kidnap a British Princess | The Bloody Attempt to Kidnap a British Princess
There were seven men in total who tried to stop Ian Ball, an unemployed laborer from north London, from kidnapping Princess Anne, Queen Elizabeth’s only daughter. A tabloid journalist, a former boxer, two chauffeurs and three policemen all faced off against Ball, but it w... |
85463d75a836d12759479259b7ef554f | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/botulism-outbreak-gave-rise-americas-food-safety-system-180969868/ | The Botulism Outbreak That Gave Rise to America’s Food Safety System | The Botulism Outbreak That Gave Rise to America’s Food Safety System
My seventh-grade science teacher repeated two facts so often that they are still crystal clear in my memory. The first was the definition of osmosis: “the passing of a substance from a lesser concentration to a greater concentration through a semi-per... |
81a21dce7bed78573e8016f0fe92c76d | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brief-history-anti-fascism-180975152/ | A Brief History of Anti-Fascism | A Brief History of Anti-Fascism
Eluard Luchell McDaniels traveled across the Atlantic in 1937 to fight fascists in the Spanish Civil War, where he became known as “El Fantastico” for his prowess with a grenade. As a platoon sergeant with the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion of the International Brigades, the 25-year-old Af... |
d6a468b96ce00c959898b28a8775c60e | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brief-history-cooties-180971914/ | A Brief History of Cooties | A Brief History of Cooties
Of all the germs kids are exposed to on the playground, there’s one they freak out about more than any other: cooties.
The word first appeared during World War I as soldiers’ slang for the painful body lice that infested the trenches. It went mainstream in 1919 when a Chicago company incorpor... |
061b5b7bb1c6aecce692124f3aa97930 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brief-history-gif-early-internet-innovation-ubiquitous-relic-180963543/ | A Brief History of the GIF, From Early Internet Innovation to Ubiquitous Relic | A Brief History of the GIF, From Early Internet Innovation to Ubiquitous Relic
What do Barack Obama, the sloth from Zootopia, and a bear waving its paw have in common? All were named “most popular in 2016” for that most zeitgeist-y of Internet memes: animated GIFs. Since their creation 30 years ago, the looping clips h... |
4c3370736513b086242fc3994d05d180 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brief-history-nickel-180958941/ | A Brief History of the Nickel | A Brief History of the Nickel
The nickel wasn't always worth five cents. In 1865, the U.S. nickel was a three-cent coin. Before that, “nickel cents” referred to alloy pennies.
It turns out that even the name “nickel” is misleading. “Actually, nickels should be called 'coppers,'” says coin expert Q. David Bowers. Today'... |
f09071114fc6f52868aac52504f90386 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brief-history-surveillance-america-180968399/ | A Brief History of Surveillance in America | A Brief History of Surveillance in America
Brian Hochman assumes this conversation is being recorded. It’s a professional hazard for the Georgetown associate professor of English and American studies. For the last several years, Hochman has been studying electronic surveillance—both the technological developments that ... |
9cab3e2dad5a07afaaaf2fe17735c763 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brutal-genocide-colonial-africa-finally-gets-its-deserved-recognition-180957073/ | A Brutal Genocide in Colonial Africa Finally Gets its Deserved Recognition | A Brutal Genocide in Colonial Africa Finally Gets its Deserved Recognition
As a teenager in the 1960s, Israel Kaunatjike joined the fight against apartheid in his native Namibia. He couldn't have known that his activism would take him across the globe, to Berlin—the very place where his homeland's problems started.
Bac... |
35ea6a82d6c7a904a6ec2a2ef64b5bac | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/buried-ash-vesuvius-scrolls-are-being-read-new-xray-technique-180969358/ | Buried by the Ash of Vesuvius, These Scrolls Are Being Read for the First Time in Millennia | Buried by the Ash of Vesuvius, These Scrolls Are Being Read for the First Time in Millennia
It’s July 12, 2017, and Jens Dopke walks into a windowless room in Oxfordshire, England, all of his attention trained on a small, white frame that he carries with both hands. The space, which looks like a futuristic engine room,... |
d58f8f54c35def1a3f9fc26311aa0cb9 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cannibal-club-racism-and-rabble-rousing-victorian-england-180952088/ | The Cannibal Club: Racism and Rabble-Rousing in Victorian England | The Cannibal Club: Racism and Rabble-Rousing in Victorian England
Bertolini's restaurant was cheap, but charming: perfect for the creatures who roamed 19th-century London after the sun went down. On Tuesday nights, in Bertolini's backroom, respected judges and doctors, esteemed lawyers, admired politicians and award-wi... |
8bdb82483261219bd8a67e425d114e78 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/capturing-warsaw-at-the-dawn-of-world-war-ii-63976601/ | Capturing Warsaw at the Dawn of World War II | Capturing Warsaw at the Dawn of World War II
Like other members of his generation, Julien Bryan would never forget where he was or what he was doing when he learned that Germany had invaded Poland. But Bryan had a better reason to remember than most: on that September 3, 1939, he was stopped at what was then the Romani... |
0a1705ba93a515b80b05314fd95bd23c | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/catching-up-with-old-slow-trot-148045684/ | The Civil War | The Civil War
Out of the august night, James Gurley came galloping past the massive oak before Elizabeth Thomas' white plantation house. Get out! he shouted. Take your family and run! Now! The renegade slave leader Nat Turner was coming with a band of vengeful slaves, rampaging from farm to farm, killing white men, wom... |
49fa179d77befe9e1b2998eca94bc4a3 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cave-markings-tell-cherokee-life-years-indian-removal-180971928/ | Cave Markings Tell of Cherokee Life in the Years Before Indian Removal | Cave Markings Tell of Cherokee Life in the Years Before Indian Removal
On April 30, 1828, a Cherokee stickball team stepped into the underworld to ask for help.
Carrying river-cane torches, the men walked into the mouth of Manitou Cave in Willstown, Alabama, and continued nearly a mile into the cave's dark zone, past i... |
da6e95c5ecb7f571521d4ab0591475bd | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/celebrated-korean-war-hero-chew-een-lee-died-88-years-old-180950063/ | Korean War Hero Kurt Chew-Een Lee, the First Chinese-American Marine, Dies at 88 Years Old | Korean War Hero Kurt Chew-Een Lee, the First Chinese-American Marine, Dies at 88 Years Old
On November 2, 1950, Marine Corps Lieutenant Kurt Chew-Een Lee struck out ahead of his unit in the midst of a blizzard in the mountains of Northeast Korea. Lee commanded a machine-gun platoon in First Marine Division, and they we... |
74f8d6fca6f034b6e5ec1727cb7de7b9 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/celebrating-500-years-germans-beer-purity-law-180958878/?no-ist | Celebrating 500 Years of German’s Beer Purity Law | Celebrating 500 Years of German’s Beer Purity Law
In Germany rules are rules—and they even apply to something as fun as beer. The Reinheitsgebot, Germany's legendary beer purity law, turns 500 on April 23 in a sudsy celebration known as German Beer Day. Many Germans love the law, but others think it's an outdated relic... |
63ccd866ad7a810c0edb248a837cf702 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/chambon-french-town-refugees-180969356/ | In the yard of the stone elementary school with the tile roof in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a town of just 2,700 people on a high plateau in south-central France, kids play and horse around like school kids everywhere. Except they sometimes chatter in different languages: They’re from Congo and Kosovo, Chechnya and Libya, ... | |
9dc20ce2fc2071b2ba84006ffeb632dc | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charlatan-ozarks-still-looms-over-haunted-crescent-hotel-180973743/ | They found the bottles buried on the edge of the woods behind the hotel last spring. Specimen bottles mostly, each about the size of a jam jar give or take, many intact, some still filled with clear liquid yellowing to brown then molasses black, the wax and rubber seals of the glass stoppers cracked but somehow holding... | |
5fa0131bcf54a09acfd8a50503b5474c | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charming-story-homer-cummings-harold-israel-180961429/ | The Suspect, the Prosecutor, and the Unlikely Bond They Forged | The Suspect, the Prosecutor, and the Unlikely Bond They Forged
As attorney general of the United States in the 1930s, Homer Cummings announced the capture of Bruno Hauptmann in the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby. He built Alcatraz, the island prison. In the time of John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd and Bonn... |
07b922908c9d74296d88780bdac0737b | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/church-unearthed-ethiopia-rewrites-history-christianity-africa-180973740/ | Church Unearthed in Ethiopia Rewrites the History of Christianity in Africa | Church Unearthed in Ethiopia Rewrites the History of Christianity in Africa
In the dusty highlands of northern Ethiopia, a team of archaeologists recently uncovered the oldest known Christian church in sub-Saharan Africa, a find that sheds new light on one of the Old World’s most enigmatic kingdoms—and its surprisingly... |
0649f98b7697ae410c5461576114f24a | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/civil-war-african-american-veterans-town-own-unionville-180964398/ | After the Civil War, African-American Veterans Created a Home of Their Own: Unionville | After the Civil War, African-American Veterans Created a Home of Their Own: Unionville
After the Civil War, 18 veterans of the United States Colored Troops returned to Talbot County, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, where their families had toiled for generations. But this time, they had a chance to create something their ... |
94ea8a407cb7f9d879f65f53053bd93d | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/civil-war-artifacts-in-the-smithsonian-539020/ | The Civil War | The Civil War
This well-preserved leather trunk, believed to have been kept for years in an attic before being sold at auction, once belonged to First Lt. George T. Garrison, son of the famous abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and an officer with the 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, an outfit of black volunteer ... |
53f7eb5ca3142da2183b61f34d26f41a | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/clarence-darrow-jury-tamperer-109085/ | Clarence Darrow: Jury Tamperer? | Clarence Darrow: Jury Tamperer?
On a rainy night in Los Angeles in December 1911, Clarence Darrow arrived at the apartment of his mistress, Mary Field. They sat at the kitchen table, beneath a bare overhead light, and she watched with dismay as he pulled a bottle of whiskey from one pocket of his overcoat and a handgun... |
3a220df6bd0ffeaeec9d88da58a3d40e | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/climate-wars-conflicts-collapses-spurred-climate-change-180952862/ | Five Conflicts and Collapses That May Have Been Spurred by Climate Change | Five Conflicts and Collapses That May Have Been Spurred by Climate Change
Is climate change a matter of national security? In a warming world, sea-level rise, drought and soil degradation are putting basic human needs such as food and shelter at risk. In March, the U.S. Department of Defense called climate change a "th... |
6aa42fba672fdeb68275c528a08ff3fd | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/comets-tale-63573615/ | Comet’s Tale | Comet’s Tale
The throng of spectators, including famed airplane designer Sir Geoffrsey de Havilland, heard the earsplitting shriek before they saw the sleek, bullet-shaped aircraft burst out of the mist and hurtle down the runway at LondonAirport. The Comet 1 airliner roared into the air— and into history—on 20,000 pou... |
2a5246460b0927ee4e578bf5eddbe40d | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/commemorating-100-years-of-the-rv-56915006/?no-ist | Commemorating 100 Years of the RV | Commemorating 100 Years of the RV
Every December 15, Kevin Ewert and Angie Kaphan celebrate a “nomadiversary,” the anniversary of wedding their lives to their wanderlust. They sit down at home, wherever they are, and decide whether to spend another year motoring in their 40-foot recreational vehicle.
Their romance with... |
42525ba379c32adcc895a69f751351a9 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/conspiracy-theories-abounded-19th-century-american-politics-180971940/ | Conspiracy Theories Abounded in 19th-Century American Politics | Conspiracy Theories Abounded in 19th-Century American Politics
From claims that NASA faked the moon landing to suspicions about the U.S. government’s complicity in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Americans love conspiracy theories. Conspiratorial rhetoric in presidential campaigns and its distracting impact on th... |
6ac3fc26ea0a80efdf4520f21e2bf561 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/costs-confederacy-special-report-180970731/?fbclid=IwAR19OZJGeMwp94pmq-PzPHt-rbUubQKBxk0pvhuOHHOcCkB0BaCl4fDL4n8 | With centuries-old trees, manicured lawns, a tidy cemetery and a babbling brook, the Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library is a marvelously peaceful, green oasis amid the garish casinos, T-shirt shops and other tourist traps on Highway 90 in Biloxi, Mississippi.
One gray October morning, about 650 local schoolc... | |
297e0c2d705db7fa5e88be10bff9c0bb | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/covid-19-adds-new-snag-to-2020-census-count-native-americans-180975150/ | COVID-19 Adds a New Snag to the 2020 Census Count of Native Americans | COVID-19 Adds a New Snag to the 2020 Census Count of Native Americans
Earlier this year, before the COVID-19 crisis hit the United States, Native American officials representing New Mexico’s 23 tribes in Albuquerque met to discuss how they could avoid a repeat of 2010, when that year’s census sorely undercounted the na... |
78e6722c000fd9ddc7c059775a10ee1d | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/crackerjack-lineup-baseball-memorabilia-drives-home-games-american-essence-180969657/ | This Crackerjack Lineup of Baseball Memorabilia Drives Home the Game’s American Essence | This Crackerjack Lineup of Baseball Memorabilia Drives Home the Game’s American Essence
Baseball’s fidelity to its past easily outdistances that of any other sport. Not only are today’s players still compared to Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner and Walter Johnson, stars of the early 20th century, but baseball’s structure and ru... |
b7521d8fd7093b01b8e35e2c627dd8ba | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/crowdsourcing-project-aims-document-many-us-places-where-women-have-made-history-180974535/ | Crowdsourcing Project Aims to Document the Many U.S. Places Where Women Have Made History | Crowdsourcing Project Aims to Document the Many U.S. Places Where Women Have Made History
For nearly 30 years, Alaskan Ahtna Athabascan elder Katie John awaited resolution to her peaceful battle over Native subsistence rights. The legal dispute—centering on her family’s right to fish in Batzulnetas, a historic village ... |
849326a4b2d4cabc5848e22ed45be4d9 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cuyahoga-river-caught-fire-least-dozen-times-no-one-cared-until-1969-180972444/ | The Cuyahoga River Caught Fire at Least a Dozen Times, but No One Cared Until 1969 | The Cuyahoga River Caught Fire at Least a Dozen Times, but No One Cared Until 1969
It was the summer of 1969, and recent high school graduate Tim Donovan needed a job to pay his college tuition. When it came to well-paid summer work in Cleveland, there was one good place to look: the steel mills. Donovan went to work a... |
2eeebba5da2028c9662e72237b4dbc22 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/dahomeys-women-warriors-88286072/?no-ist= | Dahomey’s Women Warriors | Dahomey’s Women Warriors
It is noon on a humid Saturday in the fall of 1861, and a missionary by the name of Francesco Borghero has been summoned to a parade ground in Abomey, the capital of the small West African state of Dahomey. He is seated on one side of a huge, open square right in the center of the town–Dahomey ... |
293e2c4b692697d1fe5e4fa0706a1757 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/dancing-for-mao-123906664/ | Dancing for Mao | Dancing for Mao
Li Zhensheng heard singing followed by a burst of applause. Following the sounds led the photojournalist to a young girl with unusually fair hair tied in ponytails, dancing with her arms upraised and surrounded by smiling, clapping soldiers.
They were at the Red Guard Stadium in Harbin, in northern Chin... |
3bc699900eb899e8438a4080ade1cd3d | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/darwin-on-lincoln-and-vice-versa-48151291/ | Darwin on Lincoln and Vice Versa | Darwin on Lincoln and Vice Versa
Because Darwin and Lincoln are forever paired, thanks to their shared birthdate 200 years ago and the profound and lasting (but separate) influence of their ideas and actions, as Adam Gopnik explains, a question arises: What did they think of each other?
In today's hyper-mediated, celeb... |
d8beed33c552fd78c203d457d419a040 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/dead-beneath-londons-streets-180970385/ | The Dead Beneath London’s Streets | The Dead Beneath London’s Streets
Grave robbers had gotten there first. Sometime in the 16th century, they ransacked the tomb for its gold and grave goods, leaving the bones behind and lid cracked.
But five centuries later, on the southern banks of the Thames, in London’s Southwark neighborhood, the Roman sarcophagus w... |
20467897161d2de2a2c629b53771b86b | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/deadly-grizzly-bear-attacks-changed-national-park-service-forever-180964462/ | The Deadly Grizzly Bear Attacks That Changed the National Park Service Forever | The Deadly Grizzly Bear Attacks That Changed the National Park Service Forever
Glacier National Park’s busiest season came to an abrupt halt in the summer of 1967. In a matter of hours, two grizzly bears had acted as they never had before in the park’s 57-year history. Several miles apart, each bear had mauled a young ... |
a8c552ac0f7ac1e55a467cc35340ae77 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/debate-over-rebuilding-ensued-when-beloved-french-cathedral-was-shelled-during-wwi-180971999/ | The Debate Over Rebuilding That Ensued When a Beloved French Cathedral Was Shelled During WWI | The Debate Over Rebuilding That Ensued When a Beloved French Cathedral Was Shelled During WWI
For nearly a millennium, the French city of Reims was synonymous with its towering Gothic cathedral known as Notre-Dame. Not to be confused with the cathedral sharing the same name in Paris, the Reims church was the heart and ... |
22030a42c01e8aabc4bcfd11291e15a8 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/decoding-lost-diary-david-livingstone-180953385/ | Decoding the Lost Diary of David Livingstone | Decoding the Lost Diary of David Livingstone
The last decade of David Livingstone’s life did not go well for the famed Scottish missionary and explorer. In 1862, his long-neglected wife, Mary, came to join him in Mozambique, but she quickly contracted malaria and died. Nevertheless, he continued on his mission to find ... |
8a1eff327241b571713584173190edda | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/deep-look-politicians-passed-civil-rights-act-1964-180951799/ | A Deeper Look at the Politicians Who Passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 | A Deeper Look at the Politicians Who Passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, a landmark piece of legislation, was a long time in the making, and the passage of the bill required the political machinations of an assortment of Republicans, Democrats, Northerners and Southerners, congressmen, sen... |
05cbcbe779a6da76cc4a3f8643f0a505 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/determining-americas-national-myth-will-determine-countrys-fate-180977067/ | The Pitfalls and Promise of America’s Founding Myths | The Pitfalls and Promise of America’s Founding Myths
Alexander Hamilton had no illusions about what would happen to Americans if the United States collapsed.
If the newly drafted Constitution wasn’t ratified, he warned in Federalist No. 8, a “War between the States,” fought by irregular armies across unfortified border... |
4b2823b5d50d2fa4350b2b72b29918bf | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/divided-loyalties-107489501/ | Divided Loyalties | Divided Loyalties
The invitation arrived with a question: “Since we’ll be dining in the 18th century,” it read, “would you mind wearing a British Redcoat? Also, you’ll be expected to swear loyalty to King George. I hope this won’t be a problem.”
A week later, I found myself inside a drafty Gothic church in the center o... |
40afb8101cc5138d669a5536b3335e34 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/doctor-feelgood-143267828/ | Doctor Feelgood | Doctor Feelgood
Mel Gibson did it. Brooke Shields too. So did Uma Thurman, Ben Stiller and Carrie Fisher. They and dozens of other celebrities have all come forward, in books or on TV, to discuss their struggles with alcoholism, or drug addiction, or postpartum depression, or other long dark nights of the soul. Quite p... |
85938900d085740e02846d30310a6c31 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/document-deep-dive-a-firsthand-account-of-the-hindenburg-disaster-79086828/ | Document Deep Dive: A Firsthand Account of the Hindenburg Disaster | Document Deep Dive: A Firsthand Account of the Hindenburg Disaster
On May 6, 1937, Frank Ward cut school at noon and hitchhiked to the Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey. His father, Peter Ward, was an engineer at the base. So, by extension, 17-year-old Frank, a brawny baseball player and track star at Seton Ha... |
ad9447f8d5fa21e9548e860cff6aac5e | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/document-deep-dive-richard-nixons-application-join-fbi-180950329/ | Document Deep Dive: Richard Nixon’s Application to Join the FBI | Document Deep Dive: Richard Nixon’s Application to Join the FBI
The abridged biography of Richard Nixon, as most know it, goes something like this. Born the son of a grocer and housewife, Nixon grew up in southern California and attended Whittier College, a small liberal arts college less than 20 miles from Los Angeles... |
f88645123b4fd1b318f7d7e55c874c30 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/document-deep-dive-what-does-the-magna-carta-really-say-166954663/ | Document Deep Dive: What Does the Magna Carta Really Say? | Document Deep Dive: What Does the Magna Carta Really Say?
Last month, the 1297 Magna Carta, a prized artifact at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., returned to view after ten months of conservation work. With funds from the document’s owner David M. Rubenstein, conservators at the archives used ultra-violet pho... |
ba70bf6f65443221369af7e55a86cee9 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/dogs-front-lines-artifact-smuggling-180968398/ | Dogs May Soon Be on the Front Lines in the Fight Against Artifact Smuggling | Dogs May Soon Be on the Front Lines in the Fight Against Artifact Smuggling
At the University of Pennsylvania, Roxie, Moxie, Pacy, Scout and Grizzly are ready for their first archaeology class. The pupils—four Labradors and a German shepherd—each take a turn with a trainer in a quiet room to focus on the task at hand: ... |
48b7bdfb4c401238fbdf456b2d15c565 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/driving-while-black-has-been-around-long-cars-have-existed-180958598/ | “Driving While Black” Has Been Around As Long As Cars Have Existed | “Driving While Black” Has Been Around As Long As Cars Have Existed
For African-American travelers in the Jim Crow-era South—often journeying from the north to visit relatives who had not joined the Great Migration—an unprepossessing paper-bound travel guide often amounted to a survival kit. The Green Book often functio... |
caa9ba075bd97ef7c999ce2643a8af10 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/duel-104161025/ | Duel! | Duel!
The story, as Parson Weems tells it, is that in 1754 a strapping young militia officer named George Washington argued with a smaller man, one William Payne, who made up for the disparity in size by knocking Washington down with a stick. It was the kind of affront that, among a certain class of Virginia gentlemen,... |
5e53aaa731f239edcd40a2fcb3872fc5 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/duplication-nation-3D-printing-rise-180954332/ | How the Photocopier Changed the Way We Worked—and Played | How the Photocopier Changed the Way We Worked—and Played
Recently I visited Whisk, a Manhattan store that sells kitchen goods, and next to the cash register was a strange, newfangled device: a 3-D printer. The store bought the device—which creates objects by carefully and slowly extruding layers of hot plastic—to print... |
8ec40be47824214306f9cf86ded0b5c1 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/during-cold-war-ci-secretly-plucked-soviet-submarine-ocean-floor-using-giant-claw-180972154/ | During the Cold War, the C.I.A. Secretly Plucked a Soviet Submarine From the Ocean Floor Using a Giant Claw | During the Cold War, the C.I.A. Secretly Plucked a Soviet Submarine From the Ocean Floor Using a Giant Claw
In a corner exhibit of the recently reopened International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., a submarine control panel, a swoopy-banged wig, detailed whiteprints and a chunk of manganese are on display. Together, t... |
002fcb97b284c470660e1ded49861702 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/eastern-state-penitentiary-a-prison-with-a-past-14274660/ | Eastern State Penitentiary: A Prison With a Past | Eastern State Penitentiary: A Prison With a Past
In 1787, four years after the American Revolutionary War, the United States was a country brimming with possibility, and no city felt the excitement more than Philadelphia. Delegates such as Alexander Hamilton and James Madison were gathering at Independence Hall to draf... |
9eb116c9cc3660d0a53beb78dbc11658 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/edgar-allan-poe-tried-and-failed-to-crack-the-mysterious-murder-case-of-mary-rogers-7493607/?no-ist | Edgar Allan Poe Tried and Failed to Crack the Mysterious Murder Case of Mary Rogers | Edgar Allan Poe Tried and Failed to Crack the Mysterious Murder Case of Mary Rogers
She moved amid the bland perfume
That breathes of heaven’s balmiest isle;
Her eyes had starlight’s azure gloom
And a glimpse of heaven–her smile.
New York Herald, 1838
John Anderson’s Liberty Street cigar shop was no different from the ... |
620b5ee33b2262c08d276b8049208000 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/edward-curtis-epic-project-to-photograph-native-americans-162523282/ | Edward Curtis’ Epic Project to Photograph Native Americans | Edward Curtis’ Epic Project to Photograph Native Americans
Year after year, he packed his camera and supplies—everything he’d need for months—and traveled by foot and by horse deep into the Indian territories. At the beginning of the 20th century, Edward S. Curtis worked in the belief that he was in a desperate race ag... |
a53aa8a3729b96af078e2023507be83f | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/electronic-cigarettes-millennial-appeal-ushers-next-generation-nicotine-addicts-180968747/ | Ads for E-Cigarettes Today Hearken Back to the Banned Tricks of Big Tobacco | Ads for E-Cigarettes Today Hearken Back to the Banned Tricks of Big Tobacco
Robert Jackler has spent more than a decade researching the history of advertisements produced by Big Tobacco. The ear, nose and throat surgeon from Stanford University has built a diverse collection of more than 50,000 advertisements from maga... |
50dabc1b366da7f34f755ca28f5b6a8f | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/emperor-wang-mang-chinas-first-socialist-2402977/?no-ist | Emperor Wang Mang: China’s First Socialist? | Emperor Wang Mang: China’s First Socialist?
October 7, 23 A.D. The imperial Chinese army, 420,000 strong, has been utterly defeated. Nine “Tiger Generals,” sent to lead a corps of 10,000 elite soldiers, have been swept aside as rebel forces close in. The last available troops—convicts released from the local jails—hav... |
9de6e9282756e0ee1cb85a0f8f236812 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/enrico-fermi-really-father-nuclear-age-180967214/ | Was Enrico Fermi Really the “Father of the Nuclear Age”? | Was Enrico Fermi Really the “Father of the Nuclear Age”?
Just over 75 years ago, physicist Enrico Fermi conducted a famous nuclear experiment beneath the University of Chicago’s football field on December 2, 1942. The experiment proved that chain reactions occur and could be used to release the energy of the uranium at... |
9f2720e0c992a716c613cc72e2dc2c56 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/enslaved-girl-americas-first-poster-child-180971444/ | The Enslaved Girl Who Became America’s First Poster Child | The Enslaved Girl Who Became America’s First Poster Child
On February 19, 1855, Charles Sumner, the Massachusetts senator, wrote his supporters about an enslaved 7-year-old girl whose freedom he had helped to secure. She would be joining him onstage at an abolitionist lecture that spring. “I think her presence among us... |
d0162e4a257ee125ac23c5c6fe3c1c6f | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/enumerated-story-census-180974648/ | The Enumerated Story of the Census | The Enumerated Story of the Census
On January 21 of this year, Lizzie Chimiugak Nenguryarr, a 90-year-old elder in Toksook Bay, Alaska, became the first person to be counted in the 2020 Census. Workers from the U.S. Census Bureau and the agency’s director traveled to a rural corner of the state to kick off the decennia... |
777bfcc7e00723f2273efe2c26f137fb | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/escape-from-boko-haram-180956333/ | Escape From Boko Haram | Escape From Boko Haram
Shortly before six o’clock in the morning on August 30, 2014, Margee Ensign, president of the American University of Nigeria, met with her security chief in the large house that she occupies on campus, in Yola, near the nation’s eastern border, in Adamawa State. The news was bad. The chief, Lione... |
76b918402137b21bd5e82811ad70224b | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/everything-was-fake-but-her-wealth-4621153/ | Everything Was Fake but Her Wealth | Everything Was Fake but Her Wealth
Ida Wood never had any intention of renewing contact with the outside world, but on March 5, 1931, death made it necessary. At four o’clock that afternoon, the 93-year-old did something she hadn’t done in 24 years of living at the Herald Square Hotel: she voluntarily opened the door, ... |
91f8c626616866a36e1a8eece0d9f7ed | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/everything-you-didnt-know-about-clarence-darrow-14990899/ | Everything You Didn’t Know About Clarence Darrow | Everything You Didn’t Know About Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow exists foremost in the public memory as Spencer Tracy, who played a lawyer based on Darrow in the 1960 movie Inherit the Wind. That film, in turn, was based on Darrow’s 1925 defense of a Tennessee educator accused of breaking a state law banning the teach... |
c6b60ed08e6fc566d8bc0d26e02f610a | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/extraordinary-disappearing-act-nazi-banned-novelist-180976824/ | The Extraordinary Disappearing Act of a Novelist Banned by the Nazis | The Extraordinary Disappearing Act of a Novelist Banned by the Nazis
The greatest trick that Irmgard Keun ever played was convincing the world she didn’t exist. Once an acclaimed German novelist, the then 31-year-old Keun had been living the life of an exile in either France or the Netherlands since 1936. Three years e... |
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