Best of 2013: History
For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II
A long vacation to the Siberian wilderness.
Mike Dash Smithsonian Jan 2013
The Nazi Anatomists
How the corpses of Hitler’s victims haunt modern science.
Emily Bazelon Slate Nov 2013 30min
A Filthy History
When New Yorkers lived knee-deep in trash.
Hunter Oatman-Stanford Collectors Weekly Jun 2013 20min
The Rules of the Game
How the Hollywood publicity racket evolved.
Anne Helen Petersen The Virginia Quarterly Review Jan 2013 30min
Last Meals
What people have eaten when they’ll never eat again.
Brent Cunningham Lapham's Quarterly Sep 2013 20min
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