As I looked back over the stories I've written for The Daily Beast this year, I was struck by how many of them were historical. Most were published under the rubrics of our regular Cloak & Dagger and Lost Masterpieces features, which are long reads that run on the weekends. But most of them also have some relevance to current events, especially the resurgence of fascism and Nazism, whether we call the new movements white nationalism, the alt-right, or just Donald Trump on Twitter.
Angels of the Resistance in Nazi Paris
Brave women helped downed Allied flyers escape the Germans.... MORE
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The Nun Murders and the Transition Team
Nov 27, 2016 10:25 AM EST
During the transition from Carter to Reagan, the Salvadoran death squads started targeting... MORE
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The (Second) Empire Strikes Back
Nov 20, 2016 12:15 AM EST
Napoléon III was a vain authoritarian who came to power in a wave of nationalist populism.... MORE
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The Secret Agent Shrink vs. The Nazis
Nov 12, 2016 12:15 AM EST
At the height of World War II, the U.S.... MORE
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Socialite Beat the Nazis By Playing Dumb
Sep 25, 2016 12:15 AM EDT
Big game hunter, legendary French Riviera partier, and a quintessential WASP—Gertrude Sanford was... MORE
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The Slave Who Stole the Reb Codes
Jul 23, 2016 12:13 AM EDT
When three Confederate officers decided to go ashore for a night in Charleston, they left their... MORE
Will Nicaragua Ever Get Its Grand Canal?
The dream of building a trans-Nicaragua canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific has been around... MOREARTICLE
The Southern Spy Sleeping With the Enemy
Confederate generals relied on Thomas Jordan for key intelligence on Union troops—and he led them... MOREARTICLE
The CIA Kidnapper Facing Jail in Italy
The 2003 ‘rendition’ of Abu Omar from Italy’s streets to Egypt’s torture cells was a notorious CIA... MOREARTICLE
Texas Secessionists’ Embassy in Paris
Secession talk is heating up again in Texas. Will France once again recognize it as its own country?... MORE
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Black Spies in a Confederate White House
How a secret intelligence network successfully spied on Confederate leader Jefferson Davis in his... MOREARTICLE
The Phantom Palace of Paris
The Parisian residence of kings and emperors disappeared almost 150 years ago, but its shadow, and... MOREARTICLE
‘The Spider’ Who Nearly Wrecked the CIA
Long before ‘Game of Thrones’ dubbed its spymaster The Spider, James Jesus Angleton earned that... MOREARTICLE
How Umberto Eco Tagged Today’s Fascists
Two decades after the late Italian novelist and intellectual Umberto Eco published a devastatingly... MORE
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