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The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America

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Giovanni Schiaparelli’s map of Mars drawing.

The Man Who Wanted to Believe in Life on Mars

The Mars craze is a case study in twisting evidence and defying facts.

by Cass R. Sunstein via The New Republic on November 24, 2025

Art work of a hand holding Mars by string in the midst of the universe.

The Long History of Life on Mars

A new book explores how Americans came to believe in an advanced Martian civilization at the turn of the twentieth century.

by Jon Allsop via The New Yorker on August 29, 2025

Think This Solar Eclipse Is Getting a Lot of Hype? You Should Have Seen 1878

The darkness of the eclipse lit up American minds more than a century ago.

by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on August 18, 2017

The Eclipse of 1878 Almost Killed the Father of the National Weather Service

Eclipse madness is real.

by Eric Grundhauser via Atlas Obscura on August 4, 2017

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