“Some things you just can’t make up!”
On July 12, 1855, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, some clowns from S. B. Howes' Star
Money does not exist. Only its value does. Go to the bank and ask to see the $1,000 in your
Why Are High Schools Graduating Illiterate Seniors? If you really want to know what is happening in America’s schools, do
Coming Out of the Water Dry (The 1838 Missouri Extermination Order) “The Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must
When Detective Heinz Noonan arrives in Spokane to investigate a simple case of double obituaries, he has no idea he’s
Detective Heinz Noonan, the “Bearded Homes,” is sent to Virginia Beach, North Carolina, to find 30 antique Christian crosses that
Why would anyone steal something that has no value? And then stick the insurance company for a ten-million-dollar loss? That’s
How can $2 million in diamonds vanish? First, the diamonds were assessed to make sure they were authentic. Then, in
The Alaska Gold Rush is the least studied era of United States history. If you pull up Alaska Gold Rush
On July 12, 1855, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, some clowns from S. B. Howes' Star
John Baker “Texas Jack” Omohundro, who died at the age of 33, packed a lot
Giovanni Caselli was a priest?! AND a physicist. In 1856, he invented the pantelegraph. In
Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd was only 30 years old when the FBI shot him
He was known as “Indian Charlie.” His real name was Charles Curtis. And he was
This was an IBM computer in 1958. 40% of the US population was alive in
Edward Hines. He was a Commissioner of the Wayne County Road Commission in Michigan from
Every generation of Americans has a boogeyman. The ‘evil immigrants’ have included the French, English,
These were the remains of “Big Nose George” Parrot in 1950, half a century after
My father was an Italian Jewish Holocaust refugee. He arrived in New York on the
Quick, millenials, what is this? And why did your grandparents always take a pen to
It is so easy to whine about how 'there's nothing to watch on cable' tonight.
Anthony "Tony" Dimond, Alaska's lone delegate to the United States Congress from 1933 to 1944,
One of the untold dramas of the Alaska Gold Rush was the building of the
On December 31, 1899, Captain John Phillips in command of the SS Warrimoo discovered he
Wanna talk?! Here’s a stunning, historical image that most people would flip on by in
John Wesley Hardin stands out as the most ruthless killer in not only the Old
This is one of my favorite editorial pictures. His name is “Has No Horses,” or,
Judge George Wythe had a stellar career. In addition to being one of the signers
Contrary to popular belief, history is not the story of the past. It is the
No? Well, Abraham Lincoln did. In 1864 he was running for re-election against a very
Yup, that’s right. Those books are chained to a library shelf. That’s how valuable these
[huge_it_video_player id="2"] We all makes mistakes, some of the whoppers. Some of those errors in
From 1438 to 1532, the Inca Empire covered what is now Peru and Ecuador along
Just a bunch of Eskimos, right? It’s one of those pictures you’d stumble upon in
Before Alaska was a Territory it was a District. The first Governor of the District
During the Second World War, the Germans were trying to bomb the Suez Canal to
