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Blood, Money, and Railroads: How America’s Most Powerful Titans Waged the Shocking Erie War
When industry titans Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, and Cornelius Vanderbilt collided in the battle for control of the Erie Railroad in the late 1860s, they unleashed a storm of corruption that shook…
American History
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…
American History
The First ‘Confidence Man’ And Other Historic Cheats
Since the dawn of history – and probably even back when our hominid ancestors were still figuring out the whole…