# American History
America Wanted to Nuke the Moon and Other Weird History
People often get up to weird stuff, and the world can be a weird place at times. Take for instance…
A Surgeon With 300% Mortality Rate From a Single Operation and Other Historic Screwups
Everybody has made a mistake or two - or twenty. Fortunately – and sometimes unfortunately, because some mistakes actually make…
Great Daring Moments From History
Some among us are just naturally more daring than the rest of humanity. The lucky amongst us might go through…
Historic Love and Marriages From Hell
The line between love and hate is often pretty thin, and only a short step separates the two. Likewise, marital…
A Downed Pilot Who Ran Away in a Stolen Enemy Plane and Other Historic Escapes
A life is full of perils we strive to escape, and sometimes it seems that the world is out to…
Untrue Historic “Facts” It’s Time to Erase
Throughout history, many myths have gained such widespread acceptance in public perception that it is treated as an established fact.…
America’s First Serial Killers and Many More Deadly Historic Figures
To mankind’s sorrow, there has never been a shortage of deadly people preying upon and thinning our ranks. From America’s…
The Scheme to Hook Up a King With the Wasp Woman and Other Wild Plans
History has no shortage of eyebrow-raising schemes, whether by those on the wrong side of the law, or by lawful…
The Little Known History of American Indians during the Civil War
The American Civil War did not exclude the American Indians of numerous tribes. The war’s divisiveness extended to the tribes,…
When US and German Soldiers Fought Together and Lesser-Known World War II Events
The Second World War was history’s most massive conflict, fought at a scale that boggles the mind. More than 100…