“Hey! If you don’t want to pay a living wage; do it yourself!”
Roman history records five widespread Plebian Secessions between 494 and 287 BC.
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
Roman history records five widespread Plebian Secessions between 494 and 287 BC.
As a matter of fact, he did. ‘He,’ in this case, was President of the
Yes, it is! Because the British Navy was prohibited from ruling on land, AND there
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
While the Afghanistan War was America’s longest, the shortest was the Spanish American War. It
One of the nice things about historic photographs – please excuse the pun – is
This was Mary Katherine Goddard, one of the first women publishers in America. She ran
This is the Kay Linton Memorial Ice Fountain outside the Loussac Library in Anchorage, Alaska.
One fateful day in the 1870s, the James Robinson Circus traveled to Middleton, Missouri. As
This is one of my favorite editorial pictures. His name is “Has No Horses,” or,
History is not the story of the past; it is the study of the future.
[huge_it_video_player id="5"] To paraphrase Al Jolson, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!” (If you’re a millennial,
The middle of the 1700s, farmers would put young pigs in a burlap ‘bag’ to
No? Well, Abraham Lincoln did. In 1864 he was running for re-election against a very
Wanna party?! This is a photograph of an ‘entertaining’ evening in Koyukuk in 1900, just
The greatest shortcoming of American education is the belief that you ‘teach for the job.’
Alaska bush pilot Archie Ferguson was famous for inventing “The Arctic Bump.” He convinced
DO NOT ROLL YOUR EYES when I tell you this is a statue of Sonny
History is not the story of the past; it is the study of the future.
I, as an Alaskan, am outraged some people are giving fake news a bad name.
Alaskans have a unique folk art, it’s called “absurding.” Alaskans get tired of hearing tourists
This is a photograph of a ship somewhere along the Mississippi before the Civil War.