Dan Gediman’s new podcast, The Copperhead Conspiracy, looks at how thousands of Northerners conspired with the Confederacy to ...
William Henry Seward and his wife, Frances, shared antislavery convictions, but his career imposed great stress on their ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN
The Time When New York City Seriously Considered Seceding From the United States
A culture clash driven by finances and Old World alignments had the Big Apple contemplating leaving the Union. The Civil War ...
Forty-seven years after the Islamic Revolution, some are predicting that Iran may not last the month. Is this the end of the ...
Sean Munger on MSN
China’s collapse before World War I, the Boxer Uprising, the 1911 Double Ten Revolution, and the end of 2,000 years of dynasties
China entered the 1900s already unraveling, battered by foreign control, the Boxer uprising, and a hollow reform effort that died with the Dowager Empress. A railroad sparked revolt turned into the ...
A fragile democracy, the Weimar Republic, briefly took hold in Germany before the Nazis seized power. Now, Weimar’s collapse ...
The 1913 Federal Reserve Act created the current Federal Reserve System and introduced a central bank to oversee U.S.
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