The first episode of You Must Remember This tells the story of actress Kim Novak — a top box office draw of the late 1950s and the iconic star of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo — and her painful struggles to assert herself from […]
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Stephen Maturen/Getty Images/Getty Images Stephen Maturen/Getty Images/Getty Images Drunken brawls, coercion, and lace curtains: believe it or not, how regular people vote was not something the Founding Fathers thought much about. Americans went from casting votes at wild parties in
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The motor launch tied up at the small-boat pier in Seeadler Harbor in New Guinea to disembark a dozen men from the ammunition carrier USS Mount Hood. The date was November 10, 1944. Led by the ship’s communications officer, Lieutenant
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Banknotes awaiting distribution during the 1923 German hyperinflation. Source: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R1215-506 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, available here. Early life of Adolf Hitler A complex history creates the foundation of a man who was able to order the deaths, either directly
Episode 6 Episode 6: The Sterling Affairs Bonus: 10 Years Later It’s been ten years since Donald Sterling was banned for life from the NBA. In this very special bonus episode, we check in with our Sterling Affairs’ mainstays: Shelly,
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On August 18, 2020, Americans marked the 100-year anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment and of women’s right to vote. The next day, Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic nomination for her current role, vice president of the United
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Residents of New Hampshire, where Presidential hopefuls often court diners at greasy spoons, have come to expect high-level politico drop-ins. Not long ago, a doctor’s office in Portsmouth prepared itself for a visit from the Vice-President. A half-dozen staffers stood
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Virtually every Old West aficionado is familiar with Buffalo Bill Cody’s popular Wild West shows, which traveled the United States and across the Atlantic Ocean in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During Cody’s 1890 and 1906 European tours
The arthropod fossil used to describe a new species (left) and CT scans of the specimen (right) Luke Parry (photograph), Yu Liu, Ruixin Ran (3D models). Edited by Emily Lankiewicz Long ago, an unlucky arthropod was buried alive in a
The History List Store Boston Under Siege: Henry Pelham’s Boston 1775-1776 colored aquatint map in an archival, full-sized print “A Plan of Boston in New England with its Environs, Including Milton, Dorchester, Roxbury, Brooklin[e], Cambridge, Medford, Charlestown, Parts of Malden,
