The Verge

Historic Photo: Aftermath of the Great Blizzard of 1888, New York City.

Tragedy and farce: "Mister Roberts" and the not-so-Greatest generation.

The Caves of Nerja: humankind's rediscovered Stone Age home.

Free history books! The solution to a submarine mystery.

Gerontocracy and the fall of nations.

Free history books! The best presidential biography I've read.

The Strait of Magellan: A passage through time and space.