History

If you think librarians are heroes now (which, who doesn’t?), wait until you hear about the women who saddled up horses in the early morning and set out to deliver books to Kentucky’s isolated mountain communities. Talk about commitment to making sure everyone had reading material, right? The “book women” of The Pack Horse Library...

If you’d like to feel particularly ancient today, how about this – the newest historical American girl doll, Molly, is from the 1980s. Yeah. I am history. It’s not like most of us GenXers (and older Millennials) didn’t already know that our time had come and gone, but I mean…I didn’t really consider myself ready...

I’m going to be 100% real with you right now: I LOVE Chinese Food. Or rather, I love Chinese American food: sesame chicken, General Tso’s, egg rolls, crab rangoon—I’ll eat it all! But sometimes Chinese American food gets a bad rep. Some would call it “inauthentic” compared to the sort of meals you’d see people...

Most people have this idea that Vikings were all giants with blond hair, blue eyes, and a thirst for raiding and pillaging foreign lands before returning how to bask in the icy, Nordic cold. And while the latter may still turn out to be true, a new study is pretty much proving the homogenous physical...

“That’s a pickle!” “You’re really in a pickle!” English has some strange idioms, doesn’t it? I mean, all languages do, but this one – about someone in a tough spot being “in a pickle” is really hard to pin down. The saying is pretty old, actually, with the earliest known reference coming in 1562. “Man...

I’ll admit it, I’m completely ‘Helpless’ when it comes to Hamilton jokes. I just can’t get over how they ‘Blow Us All Away.’ Sometimes, it seems like I’ll just never be ‘Satisfied’ when it comes to witty riffs on the ten dollar ‘Founding Father.’ Obviously, I have listened to the cast album on repeat. But...

I’ve always been totally fascinated by true stories of missing people. I think part of it is because I was (and still am) a huge fan of Unsolved Mysteries and so many of that TV show’s stories revolved around the creepiest missing persons stories you could ever imagine. If you can imagine Robert Stack’s voice in your...

In case you’re wondering, trying to unearth facts from the bowels of your memories of high school history class, the American Confederacy lasted a total of around 5 years, and ended in flaming, disastrous defeat. There are, in fact, many things that have lasted longer than 5 years, and these 12 people stand ready and...