On This Day November 6
On this day in 1816, Founding Father and “Penman of the Constitution” Gouveneur Morris died [...]
The Lost Dutchman Mine Part Eleven: The Stone Maps
The Dutchman is a complicated story, with few facts and endless conjecture. By the mid [...]
On This Day May 1
In Bulgaria (for as long as anyone can remember) Irminden is dedicated to banning snakes [...]
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 [...]
The National Parks Missing Persons Mystery
There is something deeply unsettling in the number of unexplained disappearances occurring in our national [...]
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 [...]
