“Who?”
John Baker “Texas Jack” Omohundro, who died at the age of 33, packed a lot
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
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
Stephan Bibrowski, born in Wilczagówa, Poland, in 1890, had a body covered with hair. His
History is not the story of the past; it is the study of the future.
Next time you complain about the postal service, look at what it WAS. This photograph
In February of 1917, Mata Hari, an exotic dancer and self-confessed harlot, was arrested in
Every generation of Americans has a boogeyman. The ‘evil immigrants’ have included the French, English,
Alaskans have a unique folk art, it’s called “absurding.” Alaskans get tired of hearing tourists
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. This is Wojtek. The bear, that is. He was
No, it is not THE Louvre. It is the ‘Temporary Louvre,’ a saloon in Juneau
The middle of the 1700s, farmers would put young pigs in a burlap ‘bag’ to
This is a photograph of a ship somewhere along the Mississippi before the Civil War.
He was James Brown Miller and he was a hired killer, from 1861 until he
25th Infantry Regiment, 1890 At the end of the Civil War, many black Union veterans
This is as Alaskan as you can get. What you are seeing is a line
St. Audry – also known as Æthelthryth (or Æðelþryð or Æþelðryþe; 4 March 636 – 23
In 1887, in Argonia, Kansas, a group of men decided to ‘pull a fast one.’
Whatever you do, there will be critics. And the further forward you think, the more
My favorite quote from ALICE IN WONDERLAND has become my motto as an historian and
As you are reading this, are being quarantined offshore in San Francisco because they might
During the Alaska Gold Rush, it was said of Erwin A. “Nimrod” Robertson that he
Historians believe that beer – invented in Sumeria around 600 BCE – was brewed by
