The Leader is unavailable: The legend of Stalin's post-invasion breakdown.
Was Stalin so upset by the German invasion that he collapsed and went on a bender? Or is it a myth?
The Verge
Free history books! The man who survived the end of the world.
George Sphrantzes survived the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. His book is online, for free.
Historic Photo: The barricades of Bordeaux, France, 1968 (and what it looks like now).
Historic Painting: "Le Tache Noire" (The Black Spot) by Albert Bettannier, 1887.
This painting is a masterwork of light, emotion and human expression, but it also contains an explicitly political message.
Deadly poker game: The moral gamble of the Lusitania.
The Lusitania disaster was a terrible collision of chutzpah on one side and naïvete on the other.
Historic Photo: Nagasaki, Japan, 1865.
