The Verge

Hitler’s American deejay: The strange story of Mildred “Axis Sally” Gillars.

How a frustrated American actress became a notorious traitor--and paid the price.

Four minutes of enlightening darkness: The great solar eclipse of May 1715.

Correctly predicted by Edmond Halley, the eclipse was visible proof of the power of scientific thought.

Historic Photo: Panorama of San Francisco, 1878.

Groundbreaking photographer Eadweard Muybridge stitched together this panorama of the Victorian-era city seen from its highest point.

Moses’s great boondoggle: The 1964-65 New York World’s Fair [Part II].

The continuing story of the great World's Fair, which despite the delight it brought to millions was a financial disaster.

A bird out of hand: My reminiscences on the rise and fall of Twitter.

Twitter should be destroyed. It should not exist anywhere, at any time, in any incarnation. It is evil.

The death of Hu Yaobang: The first chapter of a story that changed the world.

How the prosaic demise of a Chinese Communist bureaucrat triggered one of the most important movements in recent history.

The forgotten victim of the Lincoln assassination plot: The attack on William Seward.

While Booth was shooting Lincoln at Ford's Theater, another terrible crime was happening just blocks away.