# American History
10 American Heroes of the First World War You Should Know About
By the time American troops arrived on the Western Front during the First World War the Empires of Europe had…
10 Catastrophic Solutions That Backfired Spectacularly and Made the Problem Worse
Good intentions often go awry, and that is why the road to hell is said to be paved with them.…
10 of the Most Intense Moments From Theodore Roosevelt’s Life
It is fitting indeed that one of the massive granite heads looking out over the Black Hills from Mt. Rushmore…
10 Deadly Film Sets in History
The rewards for success in Hollywood are heady and exhilarating - celebrity, adoration, and riches for those reach the heights…
10 of History’s Most Remarkable Hoaxes and Forgeries
Hoaxes are falsehoods deliberately concocted to masquerade as the truth and can range from the trivial, amounting to little more…
The Unsolved Questions About Alexander Hamilton’s Deadly Duel
Long before Alexander Hamilton was the subject of a smash-hit musical, he was a man with a dream. Though he…
Big Bastards: 10 of History’s Most Influential Illegitimate Children
Throughout most of history and across most cultures, calling somebody a "bastard" has been used as an insult to stigmatize…
10 of History’s Biggest Badasses
What makes a badass? Depends on one's definition and frame of reference. Generally, a badass is somebody who is tough…
10 Famous Personalities Like You’ve Never Seen Before
Too often historical figures are regarded solely for what they contributed to history, and their humanity is lost. Everyone regarded…
Murder Incorporated: 10 Fascinating and Disturbing Things You Didn’t Know About the Mafia’s Death Squad
Over a period of nearly a decade, beginning in the early 1930s, the Italian-American mafia ran an execution squad of…