“Here’s a glimpse of the past that will give you a glimpse of the future.”
History is not the story of the past; it is the study of the future.
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
History is not the story of the past; it is the study of the future.
During the Second World War, French singer Edith Piaf was stuck in Paris. To stay
This is a photograph of a ship somewhere along the Mississippi before the Civil War.
Thomas Watson, Alexander Graham Bell’s assistant. His landlady complained about the excessive noise he was
In the 1950s, American engineers working in the Middle East – where liquor was frowned
Petroleum as a fuel source is on the wane. We will not have another century
During the summer of 1919, a United States Army Major was assigned to a transcontinental
It was said that the Roman Emperor Caligula once declared war on Neptune, the God
It is easy to talk about ‘leaping into the future.’ The reality is substantially different.
Just across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas, a booming metropolis of 26,255 in 2010,
If there is any one photograph from Alaska that should send shivers down the spine
Just a bunch of Eskimos, right? It’s one of those pictures you’d stumble upon in
From June 6th to 9th, 1912, the most spectacular eruption in recorded history and the
Eagle, Alaska was one of those communities that could never have been established anywhere else
Until the movie PATTON, in 1970, General George S. Patton, was largely a forgotten hero.
This was Otto Skorzney, considered to be “the most dangerous man in Europe” during the
Buffalo Calf Road Woman of the Northern Cheyenne was one of the few women warriors.
All Roman roads had mileage stones, set one thousand paces apart. The term “mile” comes
Sadly, President Trump has killed a time-honored Alaskan institution: fake news. The REAL fake news.
While there is always competition for who is best, rarely for who is worst, but
François Rabelais, the great French writer of the 1500s, was a master of creative thinking.
People ask me why I titled my book WALRUS WITH A GOLD TOOTH. Because there
One fateful day in the 1870s, the James Robinson Circus traveled to Middleton, Missouri. As
The greatest power of writing is offering the reader a new perspective. ANYONE can write
[huge_it_video_player id="4"] The single most important survival ability in any field is creative thinking. Anyone
This is the Kay Linton Memorial Ice Fountain outside the Loussac Library in Anchorage, Alaska.
It is so easy to whine about how 'there's nothing to watch on cable' tonight.
