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It’s often said that Chicago built its empire on the backs of immigrants and the muscle of men willing to do what others wouldn’t dare....

When Lord of the Flies  first arrived on bookshop shelves on 17 September 1954, it did so with little fanfare and modest expectations....

In the early summer of 1982, Roberto Calvi, chairman of Italy’s largest private bank, Banco Ambrosiano, vanished from the intricate world...

In the 1970s, Lawrenceville, Georgia, was hardly the sort of place you’d expect to see splashed across national headlines. It sat about...

When we flick through war photography now, we half expect raw, sometimes shocking snapshots of the front lines, muddy trenches,...

Strolling through any European art gallery that houses works from the Middle Ages to the early Renaissance, one cannot help but notice...

On a cold January evening in 1958, an open cornfield near a quiet pond in Robeson County, North Carolina, became the unlikely stage for...

There is no singular standard of beauty. Throughout history and across continents, human beings have continually reimagined what it means...

In an age long before swipes, likes and texted emojis, Victorian society found its own coded means for a glance across a ballroom to...

On a crisp Saturday morning, 11 December 1926, the quiet farming community of Buda, Texas — some fifteen miles south of Austin —...

When seven of America’s most powerful corporate leaders raised their right hands before Congress on 14 April 1994, the world watched to...

On a summer morning in July 1943, Willem Arondéus faced a Nazi firing squad in the dunes of Overveen. As he stood before his...

In the quiet hours before dawn on 13 June 1977, the peaceful summer routine at Camp Scott in Mayes County, Oklahoma, was shattered by a...

In the mid-19th century, at a time when the United States was rapidly expanding its borders and solidifying its national identity, a...

In the Berlin district of Spandau, a red-brick compound once loomed behind layers of concrete walls, barbed wire, and armed watchtowers....

On a warm Sunday afternoon in July 1928, the roar of engines and gunfire shattered the quiet streets of Brooklyn’s Borough Park. A sleek,...

When people think of the Empire State Building, they picture a towering, steel-framed icon slicing into the Manhattan skyline. But behind...

In the early summer of 68 CE, the last direct descendant of Julius Caesar and Augustus lay trembling in a suburban villa outside Rome,...

What if I told you that one of the largest human gatherings ever recorded for a concert—an estimated 1.5 million people—took place not in...

On the morning of Sunday 15 September 1963, an anonymous phone call to the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, delivered a...

In the summer of 1980, John Lennon , former Beatle, cultural icon, and self-described househusband, undertook a journey that would...

On 6 October 1966, a date acid enthusiasts half-jokingly refer to as 'The Day of the Beast,' California became the first US state to...

No one ever truly knows the consequences of their inventions—at least, not until it’s too late. But some warning signs are hard to...

In the quiet hours following death, long before photography could capture a likeness, artisans turned to wax and plaster to preserve the...