Time and again, the Holocaust survivor showed great courage, but in his last years he …
The Daily Beast: Forgotten History
Inside the Nazi Camp on Long Island
Next door to a Germans-only colony featuring streets named Hitler and Goebbels was a youth camp with …
The Racist Origins of the SAT
While it unintentionally aided the disadvantaged in its earlier forms, the SAT was the fruit …
How a Sexist Prank Elected America’s First Female Mayor
Susanna Madora Salter just wanted the men in her town to stop being drunks. They …
Westway, New York’s Great Highway That Never Was
The idea was to transform four miles of the West Side into one hundred acres …
The Secrets of the Woman in Hitler’s Bathtub
Discovered for her beauty when she was almost run over, Lee Miller went on to …
The Saintly Nurse Executed for Being a Spy
Edith Cavell is remembered as a martyr shot in her nursing whites by a German firing …
The Real Lives of Scottish Indian Chiefs
Half-Scottish, half-Native American, two men at the turn of the 19th century shaped the future …
The Singing Journalist Who Left Too Soon
Few voices wrote and sang with more clarity about the ups and downs of 1960s …
America’s First Minister of Propaganda
George Creel was so talented, he got Americans to support a war they had just voted …