Documents That Changed the World

The black box that reveals, not conceals: how flight recorders were developed, how they work, how they're used, what happens to the information, and how they're related to the 8-track tape

That poster--isn't what you think. She's not Rosie the Riveter, and the lives she's led, as, feminist icon, symbol of wartime solidarity, cultural nostalgia touchstone, are almost all entirely wrong

Seward's Folly, enabled by a single piece of paper exchanged for $7.2 million, adding vast new territories to the US, and telling us about how money moves, and how people feel about how that's changing (researched/produced/co-written by Andrew Kyrios)

486 frames, likely the most scrutinized film of all time, dissected, debated, debunked, and the harbinger of things to come as events are increasingly documented and shared

Undoubtedly one of the great document stories of all time, which help us to think about permanence, durability, and what can happen when media outlast messages

Are you crazy? Maybe yes, maybe no, but either way, this book lays out what mental disorders are, and aren't, and reinforce the power that we give names of all kinds

Joseph Smith: led to long-buried golden tablets revealing lost truths...or the most successful humbug even known? Words, faith, a backstory that defies logic, and the power of belief

A two page letter from a great mind to a great leader about a great subject matter, the beginning of the Atomic Age and one of the oldest forms of writing

A shadowy skeletal hand gives us the first good look inside ourselves, and we've not been the same since

If you don't say it out loud, it doesn't work--magic spells, wedding ceremonies, and how to stop a riot, 18th Century style