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The Murderess in History

202

Cemeteries: Local History of Mid-20th Century Atlanta

203

Guy de Montfort and Dante’s Inferno

204

Secret Santa: The History of Santa Claus

205

The Husband-Killing She-Wolf: The Life of Joanna of Naples

206

The One-Legged Nazi-Fighting Jesuit: Rupert Mayer

207

Jumbo the Elephant

208

How to Punish a Witch in 16th-Century England

209

The Great Unpleasantness? World War One in Whodunits

210

Curious George Escapes Nazi Europe

211

Early American Newspapers and Freedom of the Press

212

A Royal Son: Henry the Young King

213

The Trotula and Medieval Gynecology

214

Tuxedo Park: Inside the Gate

215

The Woman and the 20-Pound Tumor

216

54° 40' or Fight: How a Latitude Line became a Rallying Cry

217

Ghosts of Christmas Past

218

Olga Nethersole and the Sapho Scandal

219

Martha, the Last Passenger Pigeon

220

The Un-Engagement of Jane Austen

221

History for Halloween II

222

History for Halloween I

223

History for Halloween III

224

Poison in Colonial India

225

The (Failed) Republic of Fredonia

226

Tycho Brahe: The Astronomer with a Copper Nose

227

The Rise of the British Spy Novel

228

The Murder of Sweden's King Gustav III

229

The Life of Beatrice de Planissoles

230

Desert Queens? Women at the Edges of Empire from Hester Stanhope to Gertrude Bell

231

The Life and Crimes of Caravaggio

232

Al Capone's Pineapple Primary

233

Easter Rising, Part II: Aftermath

234

Easter Rising, Part I: Origins

235

Disney and the Space Race

236

Evelyn Nesbit and the Crime of the Century

237

The Eleven Lost Days

238

After Napoleon: Josephine Divorced

239

Medieval Animal Trials

240

Sherlock Holmes in Popular Culture

241

The Great Medieval Canon Law Forgery

242

The Origins of "I Am A Man"

243

Apples in America

244

Hospitals in the Victorian City

245

Papal Residences: The Lateran, The Vatican, and Castel Gandolfo

246

The Royal Teeth of Louis XIV

247

The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

248

The Invention of Canning

249

Big History?

250

Comic Books and Thrill-Killers? An Interview with Mariah Adin

251

Independence from Whom? The American Revolution and Europe

252

Nuts: James Mulligan, Anthony McAuliffe, and the Notion of Surrender

253

Dogs: The Final Frontier

254

Opium Wars and Peace

255

Bonapartes in America: Jerome and Elizabeth

256

Special Edition: British Royal Siblings

257

Pop! Pop! Pop! A Brief History of Popcorn

258

Cola di Rienzo: Medieval Tribune of the Roman Republic

259

The Mystery of the Classic Authors

260

The Lepers and the London Nurse: The Remarkable Travels of Kate Marsden

261

Jean Hardouin and the Phantom Time Conspiracies

262

Watson, Franklin, and the Drama of DNA

263

Mush!: A Short History of Dog Sledding

264

Empress Eugénie in Exile, Part II: Life After Empire

265

Empress Eugénie in Exile, Part I: Flight from Paris

266

King Arthur's Christmas: Christianity, Paganism, and Community

267

Protest Pop and Queen Elizabeth II' s Silver Jubilee

268

Robert Bruce: Stabbings and Statebuilding

269

Mental Institutions, Part II: The Rosenhan Experiment

270

Mental Institutions, Part I: Nellie Bly's Exposé

271

Guy Fawkes

272

The Demon Core

273

Advances in the West: Grant's Army in 1862

274

Taking the Waters: Good Health Among the "Best People"

275

Hugh O'Neill and the Tudors

276

Dog Stars, Part II

277

Dog Stars, Part I

278

Seeking to Punish in 17th-Century England

279

King Childeric of the Franks: Barbarian?

280

Space Exploration and History ft. Asif Siddiqi

281

Alan Turing

282

Warrior, Wife, and Mother: The Story of Sichelgaita of Salerno

283

The Scientific Passions of Mary Buckland

284

Laura Bridgman, Charles Dickens, and Helen Keller

285

Rosamund: 6th-Century Regicide and Politics

286

Lawrence O'Brien: Fenians and the American Civil War

287

The Rise of the Studios: The Origins of the Film Industry, Part II

288

Love, Parachutes, and Käthchen Paulus

289

Alcibiades: The Bad Boy of Athens

290

Before Napoleon: Josephine Bonaparte's First Marriage

291

The King James Bible: One Version of the Greatest Story Ever Told

292

Nursery Rhymes, History, and Memory

293

A Tale of Three Breeds

294

The Birth of a Blockbuster

295

Jumping the Broom: The Evolution of a Wedding Tradition

296

From Magic Lanterns to Nickelodeons: The Origins of the Film Industry, Part I

297

Dr. Fredric Wertham: Hero or Super-Villain?

298

The Life and Times of Emperor Diocletian

299

Richard the Lionheart on Crusade

300

Irish Family Values: The Clannrickard Burkes in the Mid-Sixteenth Century