Index of Historical Essays

Al Dobritch and the Shadowy Side Of the Shrine Circus 

Andrew Johnson and the First Presidential Impeachment Trial of America

Apocalypse Postponed: The Cuban Missile Crisis

The Babington Plot and the Beheading of Mary Queen of Scots

Barry Goldwater's Presidential Campaign of 1964: The Politics Of the Lowest Common Denominator

The Birth of Modern Economics: John Law, the Mississippi Company, and a French Financial Crisis

The Brabant Killings: An Unexplained Belgian Crime Spree

The Castellammarese War; The End of Mafia and the Evolution of Organized Crime

Cracking the Enigma Code: The Disproven Myth of Nazi Superiority

The Crime of Being Ethnic: Japanese-American Concentration Camps During World War II

Democracy Deferred: The Bahrain Uprising of 2011

Diary Of a Rich Madman: Jacques Lebaudy, Emperor Of the Sahara

The Disappearance of William Morgan and the Rise of the Anti-Masonic Political Party

The Dred Scott Case and the Supreme Court’s Lowest Moment Ever

The Dreyfus Affair: The Banality of Evil In the French Armed Forces

ETA and the Violence of Basque Nationalism in Spain

Fallout Shelters and American Nuclear Paranoia

The Fatwa Against Salman Rushdie: Blasphemy, Freedom of Speech and The Satanic Verses

The Flower that Caused a Market to Crash: The Tulip Trade in the Dutch Republic

Franz Anton Mesmer, Animal Magnetism, and the Seizures that Supposedly Healed

Gilles de Rais: The Occultist Who Killed Children

The Hollister Riot of 1947: Outlaw Bikers and the Antagonism Of the Media

The Ikhwan: The Sect that Became the Military of Saudi Arabia

Johnson and Johnson’s Worst Year: The Chicago Tylenol Murders of 1982

Just Because You're Paranoid It Doesn't Mean They Aren't Out to Get You: The Life of Wilhelm Reich

The K Foundation and the Destruction of Money as Art

Kilroy Was Here: The Cryptic Graffiti of World War II

Life Is a Four Letter Word: The Trials of Lenny Bruce

May '68: The Pivot of Leftist Politics in France

The Medical Art of Bloodletting

Michael Oliver, the Phoenix Foundation and Three Failed Attempts at Starting a New Nation

Minsky's Theaters and the Golden Age of Burlesque

The Moral Violence of John Brown: Abolitionism and the Start Of the Civil War

The National Prohibition Era in America: The Volstead Act and the Battle of Wets Against Drys

Nicolae Ceausescu and the Imprisonment of Communist Romania

Nigeria’s Ogu Omunwanyi: The Aba Women’s War of 1929

Operation Hummingbird: When the Nazis Killed the Nazis

Operation Gold and the Berlin Tunnel

The Principality of Sealand: The World's Most Successful Micronation

Propaganda Due: Italy’s Rogue Masonic Lodge

Puputan in Bali: Choosing Mass Suicide Over Servitude

The Qarmatians: The Islamic Sect that Stole the Black Stone from the Ka’ba

The Rise of Wahhabi Islam and the Conquest of the Arabian Peninsula

The Satanic Verses: Mohammad's Pagan Call to Prayer

Rafael Trujillo and La Massacre de Perejil

The Red Army Faction and the Baader - Meinhof Gang

Redneck Blood Feud In the Appalachians: The Hatfields Vs. The McCoys

The Self-Immolation of Jan Palach and the Prague Spring of 1968

Severino di Giovanni: Anarchist Bombs and Anti-fascism

The Strange Death of Dutch Schultz

The Syndicate and Murder Inc.: Organized Crime and the Long Arm Of the Unlawful

Tod Browning's Freaks and the Distorted Perceptions Of the Public

The Treacherous Project of Building the St. Gotthard Tunnel

The University of Texas Tower Massacre: Charles Whitman and The Initiation of America's Era of Mass Shootings

Wallace D. Fard and the Secret Origin Of the Nation of Islam

William Walker: the American Who Dreamed of Ruling Nicaragua

Yihetuan: The Boxer Rebellion and the Failure Of a Militant Religious Cult

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