History in the headlines and the best articles, essays, reviews and photo galleries we've seen around the internet this week. Jump into the comments with anything else you'd recommend.

• Charlie Chaplin may have in fact been a Frenchman named Israel Thornstein, according to files released by MI5. (Londonist)
• 50 years after MAD, or Mutually Assured Destruction, entered the lexicon, have we already forgotten what it was like to live under the threat of nuclear annihilation? (BBC)
• Iran before the Ayatollah: Pictures from pre-revolutionary Tehran in the 1970s. (Foreign Policy)
• Does New York's Museum of Modern Art owe a debt to Alfred Flechteim, the "degenerate" dealer exiled from Germany by the Nazis? (Gallerist NY)
• Fashion's shocking styles: the history of sartorial scandals (BBC)
• Antony Beevor chooses five essential books on the Second World War (The Browser)
• An account of the Dreyfus affair from a Catholic point of view (Guardian)
• The Monster of Glamis: "a hidden room, a secret passage, solemn initiations, scandal, and shadowy figures glimpsed by night on the battlements." (Smithsonian)
• Should the actions of the Suffragettes a century ago be regarded as terrorism? (BBC)
• How eugenics leaders plotted to create a British 'super-race' in the 1940s
• A new exhibition in Israel tells the story of Adolf Eichmann's capture in Argentina and his subsequent trial for war crimes (Guardian)
• Death in Florence: Unravelling a 15th-century mystery (London Review of Books)

This week we joined Pinterest, a new social tool that allows you to easily share the best things you see around the web. Take a look at our first pinboard, titled (prosaically enough) Things We're Reading, for a regularly-updated digest of articles that catch our eye. We'll be adding further boards on specific subjects over the coming weeks.