Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln
In the 1860s, Abraham Lincoln was both an admired and despised figure. Some of his supporters included influential minds of...
Devin Walk
Devin Walk is a freelance writer from Illinois with over a decade's worth of history-related writing. He is also the founder of Memories of the Prairie, a website dedicated to the history of the Midwestern United States.
The final piece of the Gateway Arch
On October 28, 1965 the top of the arch was put into place. Vice President Hubert Humphrey observed the final placement from...
When new color tvs were radioactive
According to a recent post from Mental FlossTesting in 1967 revealed that large-screen models of GE color televisions sets were...
How Motown got its start
In 1959, Barry Gordon who was well known for his songwriting opened up a $800 studio in Detroit that would...
Cave-in-Rock and its river pirates
In the late 1700s and early 1800s, packing a flatboat in Pennsylvania and floating down the Ohio River was the...
The world’s tallest man.
Known as the “Alton Giant,” Robert Wadlow from Alton, IL, reached a towering height of 8ft 11”. Wadlow suffered from...
The haunted Milwaukee hotel terrifying baseball players
“It was more like a moving light that kind of passed through the room. It was very strange. The room...
Here’s what your accent sounds like
Ever wonder why people say you’ve got an accent or why some people say warsh instead of wash? Maybe pop...
How laxatives saved the Lewis and Clark expedition
The Lewis and Clark expedition, a fabled story, stuck in the minds of Americans, is a staple of elementary school...
A riverboat buried under a cornfield
A cornfield in Kansas is the last place you’d expect to discover a buried shipwreck.In 1988, Kansas City resident David...