One of history’s greatest composers was slowly being poisoned every single day without even knowing it. The substances ...

Beneath Paris’ grand boulevard lies a hidden history filled with buried secrets, ancient passageways, and forgotten worlds. For adventurous travelers and history enthusiasts alike, these underground ...

— -- Following his firing of James Comey, on Friday morning President Trump warned the now former FBI director on Twitter that he “better hope that were are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

In this epic account, Bancroft Prize–winning historian Beckert (Empire of Cotton) charts the rise of the modern global economic order. Capitalism’s emergence represents “a Continue reading » Every ...