Cracked Archive - History
It may be hard to tell, but America used to have a problem with discrimination -- which led to a bunch of legitimately impressive people of color getting totally screwed out of their rightful place in the annals of Stuff We Wrote Down.
- By J.C Breen, Nate Yungman
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- August 31, 2016
They say you can learn from history, but first you have to understand it. And humanity absolutely does not.
- By J. Remy von Freeden, E.M. Caris, J.N. Nelson, Chris Janney, yotamnk, Jamie Wyman, Leo Bensman
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- August 23, 2016
Apparently there are several religions around the world with hundreds of thousands of followers which we can almost guarantee you know nothing about.
- By Kathy Benjamin
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- August 16, 2016
Even the basic stuff we think we understand about international conflict is, at best, mostly wrong.
- By John Preston Ford
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- August 16, 2016
The 2016 election isn't even close to the dumbest, craziest, most spectacularly corrupt election America has dealt with.
- By Zachary Frey
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- August 12, 2016
As history has shown us, the greatest ideas have been formulated by maniacal geniuses. And terrible ideas, well, they just come from maniacs.
- By Adam Wears, Marina Reimann
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- August 10, 2016
If you've wondered if there are any video game-esque Easter eggs in real life, the answer, of course, is yes.
- By Jacopo della Quercia
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- August 09, 2016
Still believe the world doesn't have any heroes? Then turn off those 24-hour news channels.
- By Jason Iannone
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- August 05, 2016
For the truly unlucky among us, our jackass deaths will be cataloged by incredulous historians for all eternity.
- By Adam Wears
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- August 03, 2016
Be careful what kind of legacy you leave, or you'll be remembered forever for something you totally despise.
- By Wes Corwin, Cornelius Heyer, Quinn Knobbe
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- August 02, 2016
Warning: You'll probably be up all night trying to figure out the terrifying truth behind these mysterious crimes.
- By Pauli Poisuo
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- July 24, 2016
According to the denizens of /r/conspiracy and your wacky aunt on Facebook, there are terrifying mysteries unfolding all around us, all the time. These people clearly don't use Google.
- By Nathan Williams
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- July 14, 2016
Kiyo Sato was an 18-year-old Japanese-American living in Sacramento when WWII broke out and the government decided she and her family couldn't be trusted.
- By Robert Evans
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- July 08, 2016
We love our serial killers in one of two flavors -- dead, or in prison. But not the third flavor: the ones who do their thing for years, or even decades, without ever getting caught.
- By Janel Comeau
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- July 06, 2016
Sometimes genius comes as a result of depressing, horrifying childhood trauma.
- By J.C Breen
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- July 05, 2016
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