“And you think you’ve got a tough job?”
The most popular boogey man right now is AI. AI, “Artificial Intelligence” is supposed to
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
How can a man drown in a hot air balloon? Can a boxcar disappear off a moving train, and is
The most popular boogey man right now is AI. AI, “Artificial Intelligence” is supposed to
There are a lot of myths ‘running around’ when it comes to blacks and the
Seen this before, right? Well, did you notice the bundles of twigs beneath both his
Actually, it doesn’t. Anytime there is a new technology, you can be assured there will
In 1951, a snippy newspaper columnist suggested Marilyn Monroe would be better off wearing a
Probably. But then again, it could said the archaeologist examining his corpse might have spilled
When hard-core Russian Marxist writer Maxim Gorky came to America, his hosts took him to
Nome has no forests so if you need to build a home with local material,
One of the untold dramas of the Alaska Gold Rush was the building of the
One of the nice things about historic photographs – please excuse the pun – is
If there is any one photograph from Alaska that should send shivers down the spine
When people think of a gold rush, they instantly think the big money is made
Far too often people have a Hollywood version of history. In Western movies, the streets
It depends on the language you speak. In English, the term gypsy was short for
He was James Brown Miller and he was a hired killer, from 1861 until he
Starting in 1938, Emerich Juettner – also known as Edward Mueller –started counterfeiting one dollar
Here’s a blast from the past. This is Joshua Pusey, the inventor of the matchbook.
While on a hunting trip in Mississippi in 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt ‘came up empty.’
Like your job? Like your doctor? Have you thanked your grandmother lately? (Or your great-grandmother
This Labor Day let’s remember – and thank – Francis Perkins. She was the longest
This is a portrait of Bass Reeves. He was the first black Deputy United States
This is one of those historic photographs that would never make a book – much
I, as an Alaskan, am outraged some people are giving fake news a bad name.
Here’s a glimpse of the past and the future together. Can you identify the man
Anthony "Tony" Dimond, Alaska's lone delegate to the United States Congress from 1933 to 1944,
In these days of the COVID19, people are looking back at the Spanish Influenza of
Louis XI of France, 3 July 1423 – 30 August 1483, was a master of
