The future sucks! The year 1999, as envisioned from 1967.
See the bizarre result when a 1960s company that manufactures TVs tries to tell us what they think the future will be like.
The Verge
Historic Painting: Winter Scene on Broadway by Hippolyte Sebron, 1855.
There's a lot going on in this famous scene of Manhattan in a mid-19th century winter.
The Leader is unavailable: The legend of Stalin's post-invasion breakdown.
Was Stalin so upset by the German invasion that he collapsed and went on a bender? Or is it a myth?
Free history books! The man who survived the end of the world.
George Sphrantzes survived the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. His book is online, for free.
Historic Photo: The barricades of Bordeaux, France, 1968 (and what it looks like now).
Historic Painting: "Le Tache Noire" (The Black Spot) by Albert Bettannier, 1887.
This painting is a masterwork of light, emotion and human expression, but it also contains an explicitly political message.
Deadly poker game: The moral gamble of the Lusitania.
The Lusitania disaster was a terrible collision of chutzpah on one side and naïvete on the other.