History

I know my answer to this question! In 2005, I was sitting in a laundromat in Chicago doing my laundry and I was watching the TV that was hanging from the wall as my clothes were being washed. And then I noticed that Tom Cruise was actually very, very strange with Oprah for some reason…...

You’ve no doubt heard people brag (or humblebrag) about being into certain things before they hit the mainstream. Movies, music, artists, etc. People always like to make sure that everyone out there knows that they were into it WAYYYYYY before it got popular. But some people really were into stuff before everyone else knew about...

I have to admit, the war on facts and the war on science that we’re currently witnessing scares the hell out of me. I’m all for people having their own opinions about every matter under the sun, but when you blindly reject facts that are right in front of your face, there are bound to...

Okay, not really, because it seems like they never teach you the good history in class. If they did, everyone would love it. Universities would be overrun with history majors, and listen – I don’t think that would be a bad thing, because too many people are out there living like the past doesn’t come back around...

There are a lot of things to worry about in this world we’re currently living in – like, a lot. And since my grandmother always used to lecture against “borrowing trouble,” I don’t want to spend too much time worry about tragedies that aren’t likely to come to pass, you know? But do you ever just sit...

I know kids today love going to McDonald’s and Chick Fil A and all the rest, but hear me out – those places are nowhere near as awesome as the iterations we visited as kids. The outdoor playground at McDonald’s, full of metal stairs that could cut open a skull and bars that effectively imprisoned...

I write a lot of articles, y’all, but that’s definitely one of the best headlines I’ve ever had the privilege of typing. This tale begins with astronaut John Young. The 9th person to walk on the moon, Young enjoyed the longest career of any astronaut before – or after – him at NASA, flying 6...

For some reason, people have this idea that all, or at least most, past humans were super prim, proper, and conservative. Though this isn’t true, so many people believe it’s true that authors, filmmakers, and artists of all sorts are basically unable to write the truth because what’s real would generally read as anachronous to the average...