“Here’s a glimpse of the past that will give you a glimpse of the future.”
History is not the story of the past; it is the study of the future.
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
History is not the story of the past; it is the study of the future.
During the Second World War, French singer Edith Piaf was stuck in Paris. To stay
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
Judge George Wythe had a stellar career. In addition to being one of the signers
So little is known about the Alaska Gold Rush that most Americans think the Klondike
This is one of those historic photographs that would never make a book – much
I’ll bet you think you are looking at flowers. WRONG! These are ‘fields’ of abandoned
Actually, it is. During the Alaska Gold Rush there was not many United States dollars
In 1887, in Argonia, Kansas, a group of men decided to ‘pull a fast one.’
Adage? What’s an adage? An adage is a proverb expressing a generally accepted truth. Like,
While on a hunting trip in Mississippi in 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt ‘came up empty.’
This is the Kay Linton Memorial Ice Fountain outside the Loussac Library in Anchorage, Alaska.
Louis XI of France, 3 July 1423 – 30 August 1483, was a master of
This is a juggernaut, the origin of the term for a huge, powerful, and overwhelming
Anthony "Tony" Dimond, Alaska's lone delegate to the United States Congress from 1933 to 1944,
When hard-core Russian Marxist writer Maxim Gorky came to America, his hosts took him to
George Franklin Wade had an astonishing record of both criminal activity and escapes. He was
The most popular boogey man right now is AI. AI, “Artificial Intelligence” is supposed to
In 1910, Victor Berger, a founding member of the Socialist Party of America, was elected
History is not the story of the past; it is the study of the future.
If you are a writer, you should pay homage to the figure on the right.
