“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
In the 1950s, American engineers working in the Middle East – where liquor was frowned
My favorite quote from ALICE IN WONDERLAND has become my motto as an historian and
Talk about truth being stranger than fiction! In 1898, during the Klondike Rush, a young
Until 1933, there was no standard American currency. Even though there were American coins in
On October 25, 1774, in support of the Boston Tea Party, Edenton, North Carolina, held
Welcome to Nome, Alaska on July 4, 1900! Talk about a tough city! It was
America has no standards, no royal families, no special people. If you are good and
Yup, it’s a sea horse. (No Photoshop necessary.) The scientific name for the seahorse is
If you live in New York, you will instantly recognize this building. If you don’t
DO NOT ROLL YOUR EYES when I tell you this is a statue of Sonny
There is an old saying that making money is easy. What’s hard is saving it.
Quick, millenials, what is this? And why did your grandparents always take a pen to
It is easy to talk about ‘the good old days.’ Unfortunately those memories are only
George Franklin Wade had an astonishing record of both criminal activity and escapes. He was
One of the givens in the United States is the USPS, United States Postal Service.
Starting in 1938, Emerich Juettner – also known as Edward Mueller –started counterfeiting one dollar
This photo encapsulates me as a writer and an American. As both writer and American,
This WAS. Here, in 1932, my father’s family posed for a portrait in their garden.
