Category: History
Family Lost on the Empress of Ireland and the Lusitania
It was 1914 and William Mounsey’s wife, Fanny Sewell, took the Empress of Ireland to visit her family in England. The ship sank and Fanny’s…
Old Woman Starved and Put into the Poorhouse
Eighty-year-old Sarah Nary lived in her New York City home with her 12-year-old grandson back in 1913. The boy sold newspapers on the street corners…
Understanding the Plague Doctor’s Mask and Costume
The Black Death wiped out roughly 50 percent of Europe’s population in the fourteenth century. Its victims first showed flu-like symptoms. They had fever and…
Point Lookout POW Prison Camp of the Civil War
None of the prisons during the Civil War were pleasant places to be kept in, but some may argue that the POW prison at Point…
Russian Insane Asylum Inmates Become Cannibals
The title of this 1922 newspaper article hints at the cannibalism that took place during one of Russia’s famines, but does not mention it elsewhere….
Counterfeiting Confederate Money During the Civil War
Counterfeiting Confederate one during the Civil War was big business for the Northern pressmen. Printers made their fortunes by robbing the South, rich and poor,…
Insane Asylum Patients Tear Up Blankets
In the Louisiana State Insane Asylum, patients were ripping apart a minimum of 15 blankets a night in 1909. Why or how is not mentioned,…
Absolutely Everything You Want to Know About France’s Guillotine
Does the guillotine fascinate or horrify you? What was it like to witness a guillotine execution, and when was the last public guillotine execution in…
Bandit’s Dying Curse Fulfilled
It is not the story of the curse, but the wild flavor of old Colorado that makes me love this story of the posse who…
How Our Secret Service Got Started
How did the U.S. Secret Service get started and why? These questions are answered in the article below that was originally published in 1917. How…
