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gold

The Toolbox

Inside the Alchemist’s Workshop

What tools would an alchemist use in the quest to transmute other elements into gold?

Business & Economics

The Gold Standard is Bad Economics

The Republican candidates seem tone-deaf to history.

Editors' Picks

Arts & Culture

The Feminist History of Prohibition

A look at the feminist roots of the temperance movement.

Arts & Culture

Why We Will Never Hear What Mozart Heard

Modern pianos are the product of a 600-year evolution—from Hermann Poll's 1397 clavicembalum, to clavichords, harpsichords, and the modern grand piano.

Politics & History

Impeaching History

Got impeachment? Not much. In American history, there have only been a total of 19 impeachment trials in the U.S. Senate.

Politics & History

Pearl Harbor at 75

Seventy-five years ago on the morning of December 7th, 1941, the Japanese attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in the Hawaii Territory.

Arts & Culture

John Brown: Feared Fanatic or Freedom Fighter?

Murderous terrorist fanatic or freedom fighter? No figure in American history raises that question more than John Brown.