When an aristocratic Englishman came to New York to perform Shakespeare’s Macbeth in 1849, anti-English and anti-elite rioters clashed with militia, leaving 22 dead. In...
From Jimi Hendrix to Kurt Cobain, some of history’s most iconic rock stars left this world far too soon thanks to addiction, suicide, and other...
With more than half a million dead in just four years, the Civil War was America’s bloodiest conflict and the first-ever to be extensively documented...
The Annabelle doll that stars in the eponymous franchise is based on a real-life Raggedy Ann said to have terrorized a pair of young nurses...
Legend has it that Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926, after an overeager fan punched him in the gut and caused his appendix to...
Virulently anti-Catholic and anti-Irish, William “Bill the Butcher” Poole led Manhattan’s Bowery Boys street gang in the 1850s. Bill “The Butcher” Poole (1821-1855). Bill “The...
No one thought Adolphe Sax would make it past childhood after his myriad near-death experiences. But he did — and invented an instrument that revolutionized...
The RMS Lusitania had recently left New York when it was fatally torpedoed by a German U-boat. Unknown to the passengers on board, however, were...
Fifty years ago this summer, half a million hippies, beatniks, and long hairs descended upon upstate New York for a three-day music festival. The world...
