Olympic Collision

Mary Decker, Zola Budd and “The Fall” re-visited.

Olympic Collision Author Kyle Keiderling on the story of Mary Decker and Zola Budd. Read More

 

Will Big League Baseball Survive?

Lincoln A. Mitchell on the past, present and future of big league baseball.

Will Big League Baseball Survive? Will big league baseball continue to offer a monopoly on the best baseball in the world? Read More

 

Braxton Bragg

Braxton Bragg

Earl J. Hess on the most hated man of the Confederacy.

Braxton Bragg was “a complex and important individual who deserves much more from students and historians than to be made the butt of unfounded ridicule.” Read More

The Sinking of the Daniel J. Morrell

The Sinking of the Daniel J. Morrell

Michael Schumacher, author of “Torn in Two,” on the 1966 sinking of the six-hundred-foot Morrell, which broke in half during a storm on Lake Huron.

On November 29, 1966, the Daniel J. Morrell split in two during a late autumn storm on Lake Huron. Dennis Hale, a 26-year-old watchman, was the sole survivor—rescued after spending thirty-eight hours on a life raft in subfreezing weather. Read More

This Day in Failure

January 23rd

2009: High winds topple an 82-foot-high purple beech tree that had been planted for Marie Antoinette at Versailles Palace in 1786. It was one of the last surviving trees in a hamlet dedicated to the former queen.

1964: Dr. James Hardy and 11 other doctors transplant the heart of a chimpanzee into the body of a 64-year-old man. It’s the first time a human...

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I’m sure some people voted for Barack Obama because of me. I think most people voted for Obama because they decided they wanted him to be in their living room for the next four years explaining policy.

- President George W. Bush to Charlie Gibson of ABC News, December 1, 2008