The Italian Hall Disaster: a fateful Christmas Party
In Calumet, Michigan in the heart of the Upper Penisula’s Copper Country, on December 24, 1913, employees of a copper...
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The “cathedral” in rural Kansas
If you’ve driven west on I-70 between Topeka and Denver, you’ve probably seen two church towers off in the distance,...
Picture Cave: the Mississippian Sistine Chapel
Picture Cave in Warren County, Missouri is a two-cave system that contains over 290 prehistoric polychrome paintings. Scholars believe the...
The history of Cincinnati’s abandoned subway
In the heart of America lies a vast, deserted subway system stretching over two miles beneath Cincinnati, Ohio along with...
12th Street: Kansas City’s Jazz Age hotspot
Once a bustling hub of activity, 12th Street, an east-west artery through Kansas City, has seen its share of ups...
What happened to Illinois’ first capital, Kaskaskia?
Once the burgeoning capital of Illinois, Kaskaskia now endures as a shadow of its past glory, continually fighting against nature's...
The Illinois woman that invented the modern dishwasher
Josephine Cochrane said, "If you want something done right, do it yourself." That's what she did. In the 19th century,...
The 1937 flood in Cincinnati (footage)
In Cincinnati's history, few events have left as indelible a mark as the Ohio River Flood of 1937. In the...
Robert Owen’s innovative Indiana utopia
New Harmony is a historic small town in southern Indiana that was home to George Rapp’s Harmonist society and Robert...
Crazy Horse’s death
Crazy Horse's battles against the United States government on Native American lands cemented his place in American history. The enigmatic...