April 14: the history they never taught you.

2 stories from the archive happened on this date—each drawn from published sources before it was written.

Booth's Diary Came Back Missing Eighteen Pages

John Wilkes Booth escaped Washington with a broken leg, a co-conspirator, and a diary—and then the diary's missing pages became an explosive secret in American political history.

1912

The Ice Warning Jack Phillips Brushed Off

A telegraph operator's split-second hesitation in 1912 may have doomed the Titanic.

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