“Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.”
This is a photograph of a ship somewhere along the Mississippi before the Civil War.
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
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
Charles VI of France (1368-1422) was daffy. He thought he was made of glass and
There’s been a lot of talk about who was on the Titanic. How about the
This is a juggernaut, the origin of the term for a huge, powerful, and overwhelming
One hundred and 13 years ago, my 19-year-old grandfather arrived in San Francisco on his
In the 1950s, American engineers working in the Middle East – where liquor was frowned
They’re not. They are Lumbee Indians from North Carolina. On January 18, 1958, James W.
Within the last week a LinkedIn post showed a block building being constructed by a
Far too often people have a Hollywood version of history. In Western movies, the streets
Until 1933, there was no standard American currency. Even though there were American coins in
This scene, which happened in Anchorage, Alaska, happened all across the country in the 1920s
During the Alaska Gold Rush, George Hinton Henry, the “Father of Alaska Journalism,” kept printing
In the teens, someone who was incredibly stupid was known as being “as cunning as
History is not the story of the past; it is the study of the future.
[huge_it_video_player id="4"] The single most important survival ability in any field is creative thinking. Anyone
Next time someone talks about ‘everyone having guns in the Wild West,’ remind them that
The single, most important reason to read history – ANY HISTORY – is because things
Here’s a glimpse of the authentic “Western” sound! Not a guitar or banjo to be
Ok. This is photoshop. It was done in the 1940s to stimulate the Alaska sea
Every historical era has its acronyms, legends and heroes. If you are a millennial, it
From June 6th to 9th, 1912, the most spectacular eruption in recorded history and the
In many parts of the US, women were voting long before August 20, 1920. In
Henri Matisse did, as a matter of fact. Of his wife. In 1905. When he