Tag: History
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Loading…âYou donât brag about wiping out 60â70,000 peopleâ: the men who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This summer will mark 80 years since the attacks stunned the world. Today, every one of the crew members who carried out the bombings is dead. Here, one of the last writers to interview them reopens his files
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TheTalentedMr. Bruseaux
He made his name in Chicago investigating racial violence, solving crimes, and exposing corruption. But Americaâs first Black private detective was hiding secrets of his own.
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âOppenheimerâ Is Ultimately a History Channel Movie with Fancy Editing
Christopher Nolanâs bio-pic is so intent on being a morality tale that it misses its protagonistâs complexity.
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Out of the Fog
Operation Babylift was an earnest attempt to save children during the fall of Saigon. Decades later, a generation of adoptees wrestles with the aftermath.
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The After Dark Bandit
The police couldnât figure out how the perpetrator ripped off two banks at the same time. Until they discovered there wasnât just one robber but a pair of them: identical twin brothers.
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Edinburgh Universityâs âskull roomâ highlights its complicated history with racist science
Skulls were collected from all over the world because of some academicsâ fascination with phrenology, the discredited belief that skull shape denoted intelligence
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From scattered traces
How the ideas circulating among one noblewomanâs coterie in 16th-century Dubrovnik anticipated modern feminist thought
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Story Update: “The Lost Prince of Yacht Rock” Finally Gets His Encore
In 1978 he was musicâs next big thing. Then his album bombed, he began a long slide into obscurity, and a bizarre fraud sent him to prison. Dane Donohue’s second act has been 47 years in the making.
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The French liar
René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?