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Google Pays Tribute to Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo With Doodle

A photograph of Alexandre Dumas by Nadar, circa 1855.

Google Pays Tribute to Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo With Doodle

Taking a Road Trip? This App Will Tell You the History of the Places You're Passing

The HearHere app offers audio stories that relate to the things and places you see during a road trip.

Taking a Road Trip? This App Will Tell You the History of the Places You're Passing

Amezaiku: The Nearly Lost Japanese Art of Candy Sculpture

Goldfish crackers have nothing on this guy.

Amezaiku: The Nearly Lost Japanese Art of Candy Sculpture

15 Most Excellent Facts About Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

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15 Most Excellent Facts About Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

The Facts and Fiction of Chicago's Prohibition-Era Bootlegging Tunnels

The tunnels around Chicago's Green Mill Lounge are rife with Prohibition lore.

This Organization Designs Resources to Help Educators Teach Difficult Parts of History in Sensitive, Constructive Ways

Facing History and Ourselves students visit the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

How the Most Important Foods Shaped History

Carlos E. Solivérez, Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

8 Facts About Labor Day

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7 Best-Selling 19th Century Female Novelists You've Never Heard Of

"Brontë who?"

The National Park Foundation Will Spend Nearly $500,000 to Elevate the Stories of Pioneering Women Throughout History

Stories of important and influential women will be given more visibility thanks to grants from the National Park Foundation.

Zabiba and the King: The 2000 Romance Novel ... Written by Saddam Hussein

The cover of the English edition of the book.

New York Just Renamed Brooklyn’s East River State Park After LGBTQ+ Icon Marsha P. Johnson

A photo of Marsha P. Johnson from the 2017 documentary The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson.

When Mongol Queens Ruled the Silk Road

Sorghaghtani Beki, Genghis Khan's daughter-in-law, was a powerful ruler.

Beavers and Bat People: The Great Moon Hoax of 1835

A lithograph of "ruby amphitheater," as it was printed in The Sun.

Universal Soldiers: The Individuals Keeping the Esperanto Language Dream Alive

Anarchist Émile Chapelier teaches Esperanto to the members of his Libertarian commune.

Smooth Operator: How Con Man "Count" Victor Lustig Sold The Eiffel Tower—Twice

Con man Victor Lustig (center) in 1935.