In November 2022, one year into an 11-year prison sentence for firearm charges, Birmingham rapper Marnz Malone was hanging out with his...
by The History Reader Shopping for any history-loving friends? Below is our holiday gift guide with our favorite books of 2024! The...
On December 18, 1860, John J. Crittenden of Kentucky introduced a compromise plan to the U.S. Senate. Just two days later, South...
The Curtiss-Wright Corporation came into being in 1929 through the merger of companies started by pioneering aviators Glenn Curtiss and the Wright...
It is tempting to see it as a happy ending. In Diedrick Brackens’s Ttowards the greenest place on earth, two Black men...
To the disbelief of gaping onlookers in the packed stands at El Toreo, Mexico City’s largest bullring, American rodeo performer Bill Pickett...
Odds are there isn’t a Civil War buff living who hasn’t seen a copy of this remarkable pencil sketch (above) by special...
The Rev. Dr. Taylor Filmore Ealy faced many struggles, most not of his own making, while a Presbyterian medical missionary between 1874...
Light the flaming torches. Strike up the baroque pop soundtrack. Set Claudia Winkleman’s wardrobe to “goth yeti” mode. Nine million viewers are...
The motor launch tied up at the small-boat pier in Seeadler Harbor in New Guinea to disembark a dozen men from the...
Virtually every Old West aficionado is familiar with Buffalo Bill Cody’s popular Wild West shows, which traveled the United States and across...
Frenchman Henri Farman was already a celebrated cycling champion, race car driver and entrepreneur when he ordered a biplane from the world’s...
‘Crime don’t climb” is one of the glib mottoes long used by Los Angeles real estate agents to help sell the multimillion...
Of all the city slickers ever to venture into the 19th century American West, Oscar Wilde towered above the rest, preening like...
O n the evening of June 5, 1944, Louis Leroux, his wife, and their six children scrambled atop an embankment near their...
Fresh from robbing the Deadwood Stagecoach, the Sioux performers of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West changed into loose-fitting Chinese garb and attached long...