February 3, 2026
The Child of Europe: The Dark Riddle of Kaspar Hauser
On Whit Monday, May 26, 1828, the shoemakers of Nuremberg, Germany, witnessed a sight that would spark one of the 19th century’s most enduring mysteri...
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February 1, 2026
The Wrath of the Leviathan: The Harrowing True Story of the Whaleship Essex
On a calm morning in November 1820, thousands of miles off the coast of South America, the impossible happened. A creature of flesh and blood declared...
January 31, 2026
The Siege of Paris: When the City of Light Ate Its Zoo and Took to the Skies
In the autumn of 1870, the "City of Light" went dark. The Prussian army, a highly efficient machine of war, had encircled Paris, severing all rail lin...
January 29, 2026
The Last American Vampire: The Haunting Exhumation of Mercy Brown
When we think of vampires in the 19th century, our minds instinctively drift to the foggy, cobblestone streets of Victorian London or the foreboding c...
January 27, 2026
The Bullet, the Inventor, and the Dirty Hands: How Science and Ego Doomed a President
On the morning of July 2, 1881, President James A. Garfield was walking through the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., prepar...
January 25, 2026
The Ironclad Outlaw: The Last Stand of Ned Kelly
In the misty dawn of June 28, 1880, police surrounding a hotel in Glenrowan, Australia, saw something that defied logic. Emerging from the bush was a ...
January 23, 2026
The Unauthorized Odyssey: How Bertha Benz Jump-Started the Automotive Age
In the summer of 1888, the automobile was not considered the future of transportation; it was considered a public nuisance. It was loud, smelly, terri...
January 21, 2026
The Wheel That Challenged Paris: The High-Stakes Engineering of the Original Ferris Wheel
In the waning years of the 19th century, the United States was desperate to prove it had arrived on the global stage. The target of their ambition was...