Fascinating Stories from History

Demography has not managed to be destiny in the past half-century—but predictions of a millenarian shift have not lost their appeal.

Julius Rosenwald understood that charity is not just about giving, but about fixing the inequalities that make giving necessary.

It's a great story. The only problem is that the whole thing is probably made up.

Anti-Trump Republicans revere Ronald Reagan as Trump’s opposite—yet in critical ways Reagan may have been his forerunner.

In 1916, an unlikely duo exposed political corruption in Indiana, setting a new precedent for fair voting across the country.

How a subgenre of murder mysteries plays with the way real history is written.

We don’t often associate Charles Ives and Gustav Mahler, but both composers mined the past to root themselves in an unstable present.