June 18: the history they never taught you.

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

A New York Banker Bankrolled Japan's Rise—Then Came Pearl Harbor

Jacob Schiff spent twenty years funding Japan's rise to power, then watched in horror as his money helped create Pearl Harbor.

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