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- This 18th-Century British Queen Turned King Arthur Into a P.R. Strategy, Drawing on Myth to Promote Her Dynasty's Claim to the Throne
- When a Carpenter in California Found a Nugget of Gold, It Started a Rush Toward the Nothing Less Than the Modern World
- When an American Airplane Crashed Into a School in 1944, an English Village Lost Almost All of Its Youngest Children. Why Has WWII's Worst Civilian Aviation Accident Been Forgotten?
- This Connecticut Teenager Spied on the British During the American Revolution, Succeeding Where Nathan Hale Failed
- The Hessians Were Supposed to Quickly End the American Revolution. Instead, They Endured Years of Battles and Suffered Thousands of Casualties
- This Box of 300 Love Letters Showed Up Out of the Blue. Who Was the Whimsical World War II Soldier Who Wrote Them?
- Why Has History Forgotten World War II's Largest Prison Break, Which Claimed the Lives of More Than 200 Japanese POWs?
- Stanford University's Founding Matriarch Was a Travel-Loving Philanthropist Who Met a Tragic End. A New Exhibition Explores Her Life, Grief and Death by Poison
- We All Know the Story of the Pompeii Victims Who Died When Mount Vesuvius Erupted 2,000 Years Ago. Archaeologists Are Still Learning About Those Who Made It Out Alive
- This 1863 Massacre Was the Deadliest Slaughter of Native Americans in U.S. History. Now, the Shoshone Are Restoring the Site of the Attack
- This Ship Sank in the Baltic Sea With Presents Bound for a Romanov Czar. Its Cargo Included Champagne, Luxury Mineral Water and Rare Meteorites
- This Indian Maharaja Saved Hundreds of Polish Orphans During World War II, Offering Them Refuge When No One Else Would
- Was There Ever an Original Version of 'The Odyssey,' and Do We Need to Worry About What Homer Would Think?
- Thousands of Intimate Photographs Reveal the Everyday Lives of the Romanovs, Russia's Last Imperial Family
- Why Gen Z Is Learning to Paint Like 19th-Century Artists
- Australia's Social Media Ban for Teens May Not Be the Best Solution, But It's Certainly Getting People Talking
- The Global Web of Subsea Cables That Connects the World Can Now Detect Whales—Even When They're Silent
- How the Boogie Board Became One of Summer's Most Popular Toys
- This High Schooler Invented a Plant-Based Plastic That Removes Microplastics From the Environment as It Biodegrades
- The History of the Beach Read, From 19th-Century 'Moral Debasement' to BookTok
- The First At-Home Test for Infected Ticks Could Improve Lyme Disease Diagnosis
- How A.I. Will Reshape Radiology—Without Replacing Radiologists
- A Brief History of Hold Music, From Early Patents to the Soundtrack of Customer-Service Purgatory
- How Shrimp Shells Are Being Turned Into 'Carbon Negative' Fuel, Food and Construction Materials
- Can Printed 'Skin' Heal Burns and Prevent Scars?
- 100 Years Ago, Students Across the U.S. Took the First SAT. Today, Relatively Few Colleges Require the Test. Where Is It Headed?
- Scientists Are Using Nanomaterials to Heal Stubborn Wounds That Resist Antibiotic Treatment
- Cellphones Were Created to Untether Us. Then They Got Smart and Evolved Into an Omnipotent Appendage
- This Unsung Black Developer Unlocked the Code to Turning a Video Game Console Into a Virtual Living Room Arcade