Freedom Wins: The Amistad Africans and the Supreme Court
On March 9, 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court set the kidnapped Africans of the Amistad free, after a former president pleaded their case.
Tales from the year 1841
The First Detective: Poe's "Rue Morgue"
On April 20, 1841, Edgar Allan Poe published "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" in Graham's Magazine, introducing the world's first fictional detective, C. Auguste Dupin.