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world warsMata Hari: The Dancer Executed as a Spy and the Case Against Her
Mata Hari invented an exotic dancer's persona for Parisian high society. The espionage case that got her executed in 1917 was, historians now argue, built on remarkably thin evidence.
american historySybil Ludington and the Myth of the Female Paul Revere
Sybil Ludington's forty-mile ride to warn her father's militia is a beloved Revolutionary legend — but the written record of it doesn't appear until decades after her death.
american historyDred Scott v. Sandford: The Ruling That Pushed America Toward War
The 1857 ruling that denied Black Americans citizenship and struck down the Missouri Compromise is widely regarded as the worst decision in Supreme Court history.
ancient civilizationsÖtzi the Iceman: A 5,300-Year-Old Murder Frozen in the Alps
German hikers found a body melting from an Alpine glacier in 1991 and assumed it was a modern accident victim. It was a 5,300-year-old murder victim from the Copper Age.
world warsThe Cambridge Five: The Soviet Spy Ring Britain Never Saw Coming
Five Cambridge-recruited Soviet moles spent decades inside British intelligence and the Foreign Office, surviving undetected until a 1951 defection unraveled one of the Cold War's worst betrayals.
cultural historySofonisba Anguissola: The Renaissance Painter Michelangelo Praised
A nobleman's unusual decision to train his daughters as painters produced Sofonisba Anguissola, whose talent drew Michelangelo's personal mentorship and a place at the Spanish royal court.
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