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medieval worldSutton Hoo: The Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial a Field Had Hidden for 1,300 Years
In 1939, a self-taught excavator uncovered a 27-meter ship and a king's treasure buried beneath a Suffolk field — and rewrote what historians thought they knew about early Anglo-Saxon England.
american historyThe Amistad Case: When Captive Africans Won Their Freedom in Court
Kidnapped Africans who seized control of the schooner La Amistad fought a two-year legal battle for their freedom, argued before the Supreme Court by former President John Quincy Adams.
american historyTyphoid Mary: The Cook New York Called the Most Dangerous Woman in America
Mary Mallon was the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever identified in America — and spent over two decades forcibly confined on a New York island because of it.
ancient civilizationsHeinrich Schliemann and the Hunt for Homer's Troy
A wealthy German businessman with no formal training bet that Homer's Iliad described a real city — and his crude, treasure-hunting excavation both proved him right and wrecked the evidence.
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.
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