Category: U.S. Historical News

In the summer of 1922, tensions surrounding America’s coal mines were running dangerously high. Strikes, violence, arrests, and threats of retaliation had turned some mining…

Charles Wesley Ellis had lived the kind of life that seemed to collect stories. Years before the Civil War, while splitting rails in Tennessee, Ellis…

A few years after World War I ended, Washington was still dealing with the financial aftermath of wartime price gouging. During the war, food profiteers…

Six-year-old Johnny Warvaiski went looking for something to chop with his small hatchet. He found what appeared to be an ordinary object and struck it…

When Mary Neils appeared in a Newark courtroom, her face was battered and bruised, and the two young children in her care stood beside her….

Nellie Cameron arrived in Newark prepared to marry a man she had known for only a few days. The supposed doctor had taken charge of…

When G.F. Heath’s young son was killed beneath a string of railroad cars near Apple Creek, grief initially left him unable to question how the…

George Memmert took shelter in an old Indiana barn as floodwaters rose around him. Before long, the water had climbed so high that he was…

Through the night, rescue workers dug beneath the glare of acetylene torches, searching for 14-year-old Thomas Zygil under tons of clay and sand. The boy…

Workers at the General Processing Company had just stopped for lunch when a dye pot filled with boiling yarn exploded inside the Manayunk plant. The…