Many objects that once signaled wealth, taste, or modern living also exposed households to poison, fire, radiation, electric shock, and mechanical injury. Their histories reveal how quickly attractive new conveniences entered the home, and how slowly manufacturers and regulators learned to make them safe.
History's most infamous frauds succeeded by telling powerful people what they wanted to hear.
The utterly brutal Siege of Leningrad lives in infamy, and citizens trapped in the city with meager rations faced starvation.
Peggy Hopkins Joyce turned marrying wealthy men into a headline-making career. Discover how the Jazz Age socialite used scandal, Broadway, Hollywood, diamonds, and six marriages to build lasting international fame.
James Bowie was gravely ill as the Mexican army surrounded the Alamo—but when the moment of truth arrived, he made a choice no one forgot.
Playing Spock on Star Trek made Leonard Nimoy a household name—but it also sparked a devastating downward spiral no one saw coming.
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