On a per capita basis, King Phillip’s War was the Bloodiest War in American History. But being that it dealt with the Native American Indian, it has been suppressed over the centuries while other major “White Man” Wars and Conflicts have been pushed into the limelight. We can never forget events like this. That is…
Category: American History
Espionage Files: How the CIA Writes History
Excellent read on the dark History of CIA and one of their most influential and controversial figures. -SF LAST SUMMER I PAID a visit to Georgetown University’s Lauinger Libraryas part of my research on legendary CIA counterspy James Jesus Angleton. I went there to investigate Angleton’s famous mole hunt, one of the least flattering episodes of his…
Brush-Up On Your History: 6 Real Life Gunslingers Who Put Billy the Kid to Shame
If some bizarre criminal held you at gunpoint and asked you to name six gravel-shitting badasses from the Old West, you’d probably get as far as Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday before you started wondering whether the Lone Ranger was based on a real person. But a closer look at Old West history reveals a…
Obscure History: Revolutionary War Veterans Live to See the Invention of Photography
Records of the Revolutionary War consist almost exclusively of paintings, sketches, and writings. However, one book, The Last Men of the Revolution, written by Reverend E. B. Hillard 81 years after the war’s conclusion, does contain photographic evidence of a few individuals who fought for America’s freedom: “Published in 1864, the 64-page book stands as the only…
American History: Prohibition and The Chemist War
The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences. It was Christmas Eve 1926, the streets aglitter with snow and lights, when the man afraid of Santa Claus stumbled into the emergency room at New York City’s Bellevue Hospital. He was flushed, gasping with fear: Santa Claus, he kept…
Cold War Files: Cold War Boardgame ‘Twilight Struggle’ Now Available Online
The Best Board Game Ever Is a Chilling Re-imagining of the Cold War ‘Twilight Struggle’ is finally available online Of all the modern board games that constitute the current golden age of tabletop gaming — your Settlers of Catans, your Ticket to Rides, your Pandemics — one looms larger than all the others, like a mythical icon made of…
American History: The Plains of Abraham and American Independence
“The French presence in Canada stood between the American colonies and any thought of independence. ” BEST KNOWN AS a clash between French and British armies, the Plains of Abraham was also an American battle. One in every three soldiers in the British army at Quebec had been recruited in the American colonies. Hundreds more Americans…