The Lost Dutchman Mine Part Eleven: The Stone Maps
The Dutchman is a complicated story, with few facts and endless conjecture. By the mid [...]
The Lost Dutchman Mine Part 8: The Mysterious Death of Adolf Ruth
In June of 1931, the hunt for the Lost Dutchman Mine would take one of [...]
The Lost Dutchman Mine Part 5: Jim Bark
Understanding the truth of Jacob Waltz’s lost mine is a bit like trying to assemble [...]
The Failure of the Reconstruction
There was a time in American history, where we as a nation had an unprecedented [...]
Josh Gibson
If you’ve ever been to a Major League ballpark, you’ve likely seen the number 42 [...]
Robert Smalls, The Slave That Stole a Confederate Warship
In 1861 Robert Smalls was a slave conscripted into the service of the Confederate Navy [...]
Madam C.J. Walker, The First African American Woman Millionaire
Sarah Breedlove was born in 1867 in Delta, Louisiana; the first of her family to [...]
Hiram Revels
Hiram Revels was the first African American elected into either house of Congress, representing Mississippi [...]
Bass Reeves, the real Lone Ranger
What would you say if I told you the real Lone Ranger was a black [...]
Bessie “Queen Bess” Coleman
Before Charles Lindbergh and before Emelia Earhart, there was Bessie Coleman. In an age when [...]