“Talk about a real-life Robin Hood!”
Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd was only 30 years old when the FBI shot him
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
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
In 1934, eight men were fined $1 each …. … for bathing topless at Coney
In the last century, washing machines were too expensive for most homes, so the laundry
Of course, it’s the sphinx. Everyone knows that. Everyone. Since the beginning of time. Really?
They’re not. They are Lumbee Indians from North Carolina. On January 18, 1958, James W.
I, as an Alaskan, am outraged some people are giving fake news a bad name.
Meet Elizabeth Jane “Jennie” Cloud Winner. She was born in 1822 in Virginia and moved
If there is any one photograph from Alaska that should send shivers down the spine
In 1951, a snippy newspaper columnist suggested Marilyn Monroe would be better off wearing a
When Elsa Einstein, Albert’s wife, was being shown around the Mount Wilson Observatory, she was
William Harvey Carney (February 29, 1840 – December 9, 1908) was an African American soldier
This scene, which happened in Anchorage, Alaska, happened all across the country in the 1920s
Wanna party?! This is a photograph of an ‘entertaining’ evening in Koyukuk in 1900, just
The single, most important reason to read history – ANY HISTORY – is because things
In the teens, someone who was incredibly stupid was known as being “as cunning as
During the Second World War, the Germans were trying to bomb the Suez Canal to
One of the easiest things to do is believe “it can’t happen here.” Well, it
One of the best-known images of the Klondike Strike is the line of men lock
Everyone has a different perspective on life. As you can see, Salvadore Dali’s view of
One hundred and 13 years ago, my 19-year-old grandfather arrived in San Francisco on his
History is not the story of the past; it is the study of the future.
