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The Daily Beast: Forgotten History
The German Jew Who Became An Ottoman Pasha
The German Jew Who Became An Ottoman Pasha Mehmed Emin Pasha was born a Jew …
Filming Rodney King’s Beating Ruined His Life
Twenty-five years ago, George Holliday awoke to the sound of sirens and helicopters, hit ‘record’ …
The Black Panther Who Fell for Reagan
Eldridge Cleaver was about as hardcore a Black Panther as there was—until he traveled the …
Sorry Hillary, America Already Had Its First Female President
Ambitious to her core, First Lady Edith Wilson acted as the U.S.’s first female president …
Hercules Mulligan: The Spy Who Saved George Washington—Twice
Hercules Mulligan not only had one of the Revolutionary War’s greatest names, this cunning haberdasher …
Baseball’s First Naughty Hall of Famers
Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, and Honus Wagner were not exactly role …
The Jew Who Silenced America’s Earliest Anti-Semites
Americans besieged by today’s hateful rhetoric would be wise to look up Jacob Henry, whose …
The Man Who Brought Us T-Rex
Barnum Brown is perhaps the most important paleontologist—and without him there likely would not have …
From British Lady Rebel to the Founders’ BFF
Her writings helped trigger the American Revolution—and earned her two weeks at George Washington’s Mount Vernon. …