The Burke and Hare murders were a series of 16 killings committed over a period of about ten months in 1828 in Edinburgh, […]
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John Dillinger
John Herbert Dillinger (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American gangster of the Great Depression. He led a group known […]
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1817[a] – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After […]
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The Black Sox Scandal
The Black Sox Scandal was a Major League Baseball game-fixing scandal in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox were accused of throwing the 1919 World Series against […]
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Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged is a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand. Rand’s fourth and final novel, it was also her longest, and the one she […]
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Famous Historical Animals
Most works of history seem inordinately focused on what the humans were doing. But this week, resident expert Cecil seeks […]