The Orphan Trains: America’s Forgotten History
Between 1854 and 1929, approximately 250,000 children were loaded onto trains in New York City and sent west. At each stop along the route, they were presented to the local…
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Tsutomu Yamaguchi: Survived Two Atomic Bombs
That is where it begins. August 6, 1945. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was a 29-year-old Mitsubishi engineer who had spent three months in Hiroshima on a ship design project. He was due…
Night Witches: Soviet Women Pilots of WWII
The approach was the thing that made German soldiers stop and listen. No engine sound. Nothing mechanical. Just the soft whisper of canvas wings through the dark air, something almost…
Ching Shih: The World’s Greatest Pirate
The Qing dynasty sent fleet after fleet. The Portuguese dispatched warships from Macau. The British East India Company contributed vessels of its own to what was, by any measure, a…
Dancing Plague of 1518: Mass Hysteria History
July 1518. Strasbourg. A woman named Frau Troffea walked outside and startedvdancing. There was no music. She had not planned it. She simply began moving and could not stop. Six…