In October 1871, a massive forest fire incinerated the town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin. It was the deadliest fire in North A
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Bobbie Scopa spent close to five decades working through nearly every challenge a firefighter can face. Scopa was a stri
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September, 1666; carried by a strong east wind, in just four days Shakespeare’s London would disappear forever, consumed
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Enter a world of terror with Echoes of the Dead: A Treasury of Scary Stories. Written by Prabir Rai Chaudhuri, this coll
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After a decade abroad, the National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he
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In an England inhabited by Pepys, Evelyn, Dryden, Hobbes and the young Isaac Newton, Charles II is king, and the nation
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On the night of July 19, AD 64, a fire began beneath the stands of Rome's great stadium, the Circus Maximus. For mo
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