Category: U.S. Historical News

There are innumerable tales of lost treasures and lost gold mines in the United States and in numerous other countries. During the times of the…

While this 1912 article mainly focuses on women working in the steel mills in the early 1900s, it does show that both the women and…

Prohibition must have been total hell to enforce upon the people of the United States. Special officers were brought in, men who were not recognizable…

Want a baby for Christmas? It would make for one hell of a present, wouldn’t it? Only in New Jersey would people conceive of giving…

Old timers tell a lot of tales of lost treasures and hidden gold. When I was growing up, the old lady who used to live…

Having lived in coal mining country, I have often wondered what would happen if one of the many mines underfoot would collapse. That is what…

Crime in the 1900s was everywhere, including Paris. What makes this old newspaper article on Parisian crime so fascinating are the crime guilds it discusses…

Snake eater bitten by a snake – it sounds like a bad reality television show, but it was part of the entertainment back in the…

Here is a true story that could spark the imagination of any writer, even during the direst moments of writer’s block. A man is found…