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Stephanie St. Clair: The Harlem Gambling Queen Who Took On the Mafia and NYPD
Cus D’Amato: Inventor of Peek-a-boo Boxing and Creator of Champions
The F-86 Sabre Beat Back the MiG-15 Over Korea, and Became the Most Produced Western Jet Fighter
WWII Battle of Los Angeles Panic: The Night LA Was Engulfed by Hysteria and Wild Antiaircraft Firing
Law Enforcement Pioneer Samuel J. Battle, the NYPD’s First Black Officer
Operation Flagship: The Sting that Captured 101 Fugitives With the Promise of Free Redskins Tickets
The Bell AH-1 Cobra in Vietnam: A Stopgap Design that Revolutionized Helicopter Warfare
The 1916 Columbus Raid: When Pancho Villa Attacked an American Town
Rachel Wall: America’s First Female Pirate
Typhoid Mary, and How Far Government Can Go to Protect Public Health
Sandblom’s Santa: How Coca-Cola Standardized the Modern Image of Santa Claus
Barbara Rose Johns: The Teenager Who Set in Motion the End of Segregation
Edward Allen Carter Jr.: A Real Life Action Hero Who Fought Franco, Hirohito, and Hitler
The Perry Expedition and the ‘Black Ships’ That Revolutionized Japan
Folklore and Mythology: The Origins of Santa Claus
The Bizarre Case of Mitsuyasu Maeno: Japanese Porn Star Who Flew a Kamikaze Plane Into a Yakuza Boss’ House to Protest an American Corruption Scandal
The Texas City Disaster: America’s Deadliest Industrial Accident Wrecked a City and Killed Hundreds
Battle of the Severn: The English Civil War’s Last Battle Was Fought in America
WWII Fletcher Class Destroyers: America’s Most Successful Destroyer Design
The Lovable Tramp’s Kinky Side: The Scandals That Got Charlie Chaplin De Facto Deported from the US
Jack Johnson: The Unapologetically Black Heavyweight Champion Who Challenged Jim Crow Conventions
Confederates in Africa: Southern General William Wing Loring in Ethiopia
WWII Fighters – The Brewster F2A Buffalo: A ‘Flying Coffin’ to US Marines, but a ‘Pearl’ to the Finns
The Son Tay Raid: A Daring Special Forces Assault to Rescue American POWs in North Vietnam
Edward Black: The US Civil War’s Youngest Soldier
The ‘Dynamite Fiend’: Conman, Confederate Spy, and Mass Murderer Alexander Keith Jr.
Rock & Roll’s First ‘Wild Man’ Jerry Lee Lewis Wrecked His Career by Marrying His Thirteen-Year-Old Cousin
Johnny Ringo, the Tragic Old West Outlaw
10 Fascinating Facts About the Flying Tigers, the American Volunteers Who Fought for China in WWII
Frances Glessner Lee, the ‘Mother of Forensic Science’ Who Revolutionized Criminal Investigations
Mother Bickerdyke: The Heroic US Civil War Nurse Who Saved Thousands of Lives
The Bombardment of Ellwood: The WWII Japanese Shelling of California that Plunged the West Coast Into Panic
Felt Hat Day and Straw Hat Riots: When American Cities Erupted Over Headdress
The Spencer Repeating Rifle: The Civil War Firearm that Revolutionized Battlefields
23 Greatest Bombers of World War II
Immigrants in the US Civil War
Dance Marathons: From Cheerful Events in the Roaring Twenties, to Sad Spectacles in the Great Depression
Henry Kaiser and Liberty Ships: The Massive Project that Kept the Allies Supplied in WWII
Wild West Outlaw Black Bart, ‘The Gentleman Bandit’
Basil Plumley, the Legendary US Army Command Sergeant Major Who Fought in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam
10 of History’s Worst Examples of Bad Generalship
Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Fearsome Abolitionist Muhammad Ali Was Named After
The Bay of Pigs: Mistakes That Transformed an Invasion Into a Fiasco
20 Greatest Fighters of World II
The Battle of Surigao Strait: History’s Last Battleship Clash
Charles Edwin King: The US Civil War’s Youngest Combat Fatality
George Washington’s Sense of Humor: Cracking Jokes While Crossing the Delaware
‘Don’t Worry About It’: Kermit Tyler, the Officer Who Ignored Radar Warning of Japanese Planes Approaching Pearl Harbor
The War of the Currents: Nikola Tesla’s Revenge on Thomas Edison
Sherman Made Georgia Howl, but Not as Loudly as He Made South Carolina Scream
Hugh Thompson Jr. at My Lai: Heroism Amidst a Massacre
The Devastatingly Deadly 1918 Philadelphia Parade That Was Held in the Middle of a Pandemic
‘Whistling Death’: The F4U Corsair, America’s Formidable WWII Gull Wing Fighter
Jackie Coogan, the Addams Family’s Uncle Fester, in World War II
Andrew Higgins and the Higgins Boat That Revolutionized Warfare and Won WWII
The Black Tom Explosion: When Kaiser Wilhelm’s Agents Almost Blew Up the Statue of Liberty
‘Mokusatsu’ and the Translation Error That Led to the Atomic Bombing of Japan
Benedict Arnold: From Celebrated Hero to America’s Most Infamous Traitor
The Tragic Death of Albert Peter Dewey, America’s First Fatality in Vietnam
After the Fame – Cooter: From the Dukes of Hazzard to the House of Representatives
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