Centuries of violent history have laced Bell County with a potent compound of haunted activity. Spectral conquistadors stand guard over the Treasure of the Golden Bull, hidden in Salado caverns by the
Santa Catalina Island is one of the West Coast's great nearby escapes, an hour's boat ride from Los Angeles and Long Beach for one million annual tourists. The island's seventy-six square miles contai
Learn about the remarkable life of one of Mississippia??s literary treasures, complete with vivid illustrations by John Aycock that are as colorful as Eudoraa??s stories.A
While all but gone today, Jamestowna??s furniture industry was once thesecond-largest producer of furniture in the United States. Manufacturing boomedfrom 1816, when William Breed and Royal Keyes open
"The University of Kansas's men's basketball team is one of the oldest and most successful in the history of college basketball; the very inventor of thesport, Dr. James Naismith, was KU's first coach
A collection of stories about the forgotten rituals and superstitions that guided New England mariners in their daily lives from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.
"Asone of the nation’s oldest cities, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a tumultuoushistory filled with Revolutionary War beginnings, religious persecution andcenturies of debate among Ivy Leag
"The culinary history of Georgetown and Horry Counties reflects a unique merging of Native American, European, African and Caribbean cuisines. Learn how slaves taught their masters to create vast weal
Columbusgrew from a one-horse town to a metropolis one day at a time. Tom Betti andDoreen Uhas Sauer of the Columbus Landmarks Foundation have selected the 365most fascinating city history vignettes f
Atthe conclusion of the Civil War, Wilkes County, North Carolina, was the site ofthe nation’s first nationally publicizedcrime of passion. In the wake of a tumultuous love affair and amysterious chain
The real-life scandals of Hollywood’s personalities rival any drama they bring to life on the silver screen. The Hollywood Scandal Almanac provides daily doses of high and low crimes, fraud and deceit
At the age of twenty-two, Abraham Lincoln arrived in New Salem, Illinois, as a “strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy” (in his own words). He did not remain friendless for long. Meet the comm
Gettysburg is America’s most famous battle. Fought on the first three days of July 1863, it was one of the largest and by far the bloodiest of the Civil War. Yet the importance of this great conflagra
