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2026 45

  1. Icons of Aviation History: The MiG-21
  2. A Closer Look at Kenyanthropus Platyops
  3. Museum Ship USS Cassin Young
  4. Napoleon’s 100 Days
  5. A Shameless Plug: My “human evolution” book
  6. A Closer Look at Australopithecus Africanus
  7. The Lake Nyos Disaster
  8. Icons of Aviation History: The Avrocar
  9. A Closer Look at Australopithecus Bahrelghazali
  10. WW1’s Togoland Campaign
  11. Icons of Aviation History: The KC-135 Stratotanker
  12. Museum Ship: Carrier USS Lexington
  13. The Pinellas Plant Nuclear Facility
  14. A Closer Look at Australopithecus Deyiremeda
  15. The Early Turtles
  16. The Irish Wars of Independence
  17. Icons of Aviation History: The X-15 Rocket Plane
  18. The First Trip Around the World
  19. A Closer Look at Australopithecus Afarensis
  20. The Gingko Tree: A Living Fossil
  21. The Boer Wars
  22. The USS Forrestal Fire
  23. Museum Ship USS Croaker
  24. Evolution of the Manatee
  25. The Zong Massacre
  26. The Akkadian Empire
  27. Science Denier Bingo: A Board Game for Science Fans
  28. May Day History The Haymarket Riot
  29. The Ransoming of Richard the Lionheart
  30. The Japanese “Judy” Dive Bomber
  31. The German Revolution of 1918
  32. NASA’s Ocean Mission
  33. The Myakka Skunk Ape
  34. A Closer Look at Homo Habilis
  35. Museum Ship The Sullivans
  36. Squeaky Fromme’s Assassination Attempt on President Gerald Ford
  37. France’s Little Corner of North America
  38. The Bossburg Bigfoot Tracks
  39. The George Wallace Shooting
  40. USS Hornet Museum Ship
  41. Child of the Sun National Historic Landmark, Lakeland FL
  42. The No Gun Ri Massacre
  43. The Republic of East Florida
  44. The Fiji Mermaid
  45. The Trung Sisters Rebellion

2025 52

  1. A Closer Look at Australopithecus prometheus
  2. The Christmas Truce
  3. Japanese Yokai
  4. Alaska’s Portlock Monster
  5. China’s Almost-War With Taiwan and the US
  6. Cuvier and the Maastricht Mosasaur
  7. Churchill’s Speech
  8. Scotland’s Failed Darien Colony
  9. Minnesota’s Northwest Angle
  10. A Closer Look at Australopithecus anamensis
  11. The Olbers Paradox
  12. International Space Law
  13. Swearing and the Japanese Language
  14. Icons of Aviation History: Boeing 707
  15. Mars Pathfinder
  16. Propaganda of the Deed
  17. How a Lincoln Conspirator’s Skull Ended Up in Florida
  18. A Closer Look At: Ardipithecus ramidus
  19. Submarine USS Growler
  20. Mexican Wolf Conservation
  21. Swift Boats in Vietnam
  22. Submarine USS Blueback
  23. Icons of Aviation History: Cessna 172
  24. A Closer Look At: Ardipithecus kadabba
  25. Aircraft Carrier USS Intrepid
  26. When Japan Bombed Oregon
  27. The Pascagoula Space Aliens
  28. The “Akikaze” Massacre
  29. Icons of Aviation History: Grumman X-29
  30. The Ancient Roman Dice Game of Tali
  31. Mercury-Redstone 1: The Four-Inch Flight
  32. A Closer look at Orrorin
  33. “Bacterium!”: A 3d-Printed Game
  34. Ram Jam’s “Black Betty”
  35. Florida’s Barker Gang Shootout
  36. The Japanese Fugo Balloon Bomb
  37. A Closer Look at: Sahelanthropus
  38. Submarine USS Dolphin
  39. Hominins
  40. The Assassination of Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr
  41. Sailing Ship “Star of India”
  42. World War One Trench Songs
  43. The First Appalachian Trail Thru-Hiker
  44. Project Mercury
  45. The Fantasy Game of Tak
  46. The Vigenere Cipher
  47. The Sobibor Rebellion
  48. Cloud Gate, Chicago’s “Bean”
  49. The First Space Launch
  50. The 1968 Utah Sheep Kill
  51. The Marco Polo Bridge Incident
  52. The French Space Cat Felicette

2024 56

  1. The Story of the Cow
  2. The 1914 Christmas Truce
  3. Antarctic Snow Cruiser
  4. The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
  5. The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
  6. The Assassination of Malcolm X
  7. The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
  8. Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
  9. The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
  10. The Last Day of World War One
  11. Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
  12. A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
  13. The Ocarina
  14. London’s “Death Ray Building”
  15. USS Iowa
  16. Icons of Aviation History: The X-13 Vertijet
  17. US Navy Project Strato-Lab
  18. Icons of Aviation History: The F-100 Super Sabre
  19. The Most Successful Submarine Captain of All Time
  20. A History of the Banjo
  21. Icons of Aviation History: Lockheed Constellation
  22. The Harvey House
  23. Elektro and Sparko
  24. The Third Atomic Bomb
  25. NASA’s Armored Vehicles
  26. The “Zoot Suit” Riots
  27. The Doan Gang and the American Revolution
  28. Chinese Zi Pai Card Games
  29. When an American B-17 Bombed Oklahoma
  30. World War One Combat Helmets
  31. The Battle of Trafalgar
  32. The Allied Air Raid on Dresden
  33. English Idioms From the Middle Ages
  34. The “Laconia” Incident
  35. How a Zoo Exhibit is Designed
  36. Portugal’s “Carnation Revolution”
  37. The Vietnam War “Rock Apes”
  38. May Day History: The Haymarket Riot
  39. Isaac Parker: The “Hanging Judge”
  40. How Donald Trump’s Uncle Helped Win WW2
  41. Lee Harvey Oswald’s Rifle
  42. The Largest Ship Ever Built
  43. Russia’s Naval War in Ukraine
  44. The CIA’s Cold War Plan to Use Stray Cats as Spies
  45. The SL-1 Nuclear Reactor Accident
  46. The Soviet Lunokhod Moon Rover
  47. Icons of Aviation History: B-52 Stratofortress
  48. “Legs” Diamond
  49. American Chinese Food
  50. Wild Florida: Dung Beetles
  51. When the USSR “Invaded” Iran
  52. Battle of the 300 Champions
  53. Making a “Canjo” One-String Guitar
  54. Laika and Sputnik 2
  55. The Canaanite God Baal
  56. Dinner in the WW1 Trenches

2023 57

  1. Eugene V Debs
  2. The 1914 Christmas Truce
  3. Submarine USS Drum
  4. America’s Strangest Election
  5. “The Gael” and “Last of the Mohicans”
  6. Icons of Aviation History: The B-58 Hustler
  7. The Mongol Game of Jarmo
  8. Florida’s Turpentine Industry
  9. The Last Day of World War One
  10. The Wreck of the Whaler “Essex”
  11. Battleship USS North Carolina
  12. The Higgins Boat
  13. Icons of Aviation History: The B-2 Spirit
  14. The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot
  15. The 1921 Tulsa Race Riots
  16. The NYC Piggery War of 1859
  17. Icons of Aviation History: F-86 Sabre
  18. Henry George and the Single Tax Movement
  19. Mercury-Redstone 4, “Liberty Bell 7”
  20. West Virginia’s Mothman
  21. Icons of Aviation History: MiG-23 Flogger
  22. The Assyrian Game of Pah Tum
  23. The USS “Panay” Incident
  24. The Altair 8800
  25. Airboats
  26. Icons of Aviation History: F-84 Thunderjet
  27. The Convoluted Presidential Election of 1876
  28. The Korean Game of Hobak Gonu
  29. The Boeing Starliner Spaceship
  30. The “Great Salt Lake Whales”
  31. Icons of Aviation History: The MiG-25 Foxbat
  32. The Florida Witch’s Grave
  33. Hueco Tanks, Texas
  34. Los Braceros
  35. The Second Reich’s Genocide
  36. The Hodges Meteorite
  37. The Battle of Lake Okeechobee
  38. The People’s Liberation Army Air Force
  39. The Hopkinsville Space Aliens
  40. Florida’s Sinkholes
  41. Icons of Aviation History: P-80 Shooting Star
  42. The Cugnot Steam Auto
  43. The Hopi Game of Totolospi
  44. Earth’s First Mountains
  45. Icons of Aviation History: The Soviet Tupolev Tu-22 Bomber
  46. A Necessary Political Interlude
  47. Mar-A-Lago, Florida
  48. “Soon May the Wellerman Come To Bring Us Sugar and Tea and Rum … “
  49. SS United States
  50. Florida’s Terror Birds
  51. Icons of Aviation History: MiG-17
  52. Japanese Type A Midget Submarine
  53. Pease Air Force Base, New Hampshire
  54. Florida Bushcraft Arrows
  55. Icons of Aviation History: The A-1 Skyraider
  56. A Shameless Plug
  57. The Moon Buggy

2022 54

  1. The Davy Crockett Nuclear Weapon
  2. Icons of Aviation History: X-85 Goblin
  3. Florida Bushcraft: Bone and Antler Tools
  4. The MX Missile
  5. The Attempted Assassination of Richard Nixon
  6. The Hawaiian Game of Lu-Lu
  7. Chicago’s “Owl Man”
  8. Harry S Truman Home, Independence MO
  9. Icons of Aviation History: The B-47 Stratojet
  10. Tocobaga Florida Bushcraft: Making Cordage From Palmettos
  11. Icons of Aviation History: The Mosquito
  12. The Founding of Savannah GA
  13. Lake Missoula and the Great Glacial Flood
  14. Betty and Barney Hill’s Interrupted Journey
  15. The Process Behind an RAF Nighttime Air Raid on Nazi Germany
  16. Icons of Aviation History: F9F Panther
  17. The Lenape Game of Mamantuhwin
  18. William Howard Taft Boyhood Home, Cincinnati OH
  19. UNESCO And the Everglades
  20. Icons of Aviation History: B-25 Mitchell
  21. The VENONA Intercepts
  22. Icons of Aviation History: MiG-15
  23. The 1876 Northfield MN Bank Robbery
  24. The Assassination Attempt on FDR
  25. Greek Fire
  26. The Battle of Fort Oswego
  27. Icons of Aviation History: Spitfire
  28. An Early History of Pants and Trousers
  29. The Palomares “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Bomb Accident
  30. Quest for Fire
  31. Milwaukee’s Domes Conservatory
  32. The Maya Game of Buluc
  33. The Theramin
  34. The Sling
  35. A History of Museums
  36. The “Hello Girls” of WW1
  37. The Iceberg That Sank the “Titanic”
  38. Willow Run B-24 Plant
  39. The Kiowa Game of Zohn Ahl
  40. Icons of Aviation History: J-3 Piper Cub
  41. A History of Baseball
  42. Canning At The Indiana Historical Society
  43. The New England Vampires
  44. When Singapore Was Forced Into Independence
  45. How An Art Forger Fooled the Nazis
  46. Icons of Aviation History: Hawker Hurricane
  47. Sunwatch Archaeological Park, Dayton OH
  48. History, Russia, and Vladimir Putin
  49. Dinosaur Park, Rapid City SD
  50. King Richard the Lionheart
  51. The Ancient Greek Game of Pente Grammai
  52. Project Stargate–the CIA’s Psychic Spies
  53. NASA’s Space Chimps
  54. Elvis Presley’s Graceland

2021 53

  1. Japanese Imperial Army Fighters of WW2
  2. The Game of Nine Men’s Morris
  3. The Planet Vulcan (No, Not THAT One …)
  4. When the US Nuked Mississippi
  5. The Missouri/Iowa Honey War of 1839
  6. Florida’s “Black Drink”
  7. Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
  8. The Last Day of World War One
  9. Icons of Aviation History: Lockheed P-38 Lightning
  10. The 1917 Bisbee “Deportations”
  11. When Arizona Had Two Governors
  12. Wild Florida: The Florida Panther
  13. Battle at Horseshoe Bend
  14. Icons of Aviation History: P-47 Thunderbolt
  15. The 1908 Springfield Race Riots
  16. Henry Ford, And Thomas Edison’s Last Breath
  17. The Guillotine
  18. The Dymaxion House
  19. Medical Quackery in the Early 20th Century
  20. Icons of Aviation History: Douglas SBD Dauntless
  21. The Sinking of RMS Arabic
  22. Icons of Aviation History: Focke-Wulf 190
  23. The Corvette Stingray
  24. The First American Presidents
  25. The Carrier “Shinano”: Japan’s last Hope
  26. Icons of Aviation History: The ME-262
  27. Historic Bethlehem and the Fries Rebellion
  28. Woodrow Wilson’s Boyhood Home
  29. Battle of San Jacinto
  30. A History of Pizza
  31. Hnefatafl, The Viking Game of Chess
  32. Icons of Aviation History: Bell P-39 Airacobra
  33. The German Fighter Pilot Who Flew for the RAF
  34. Ruby Falls
  35. Tampa Bay in the Spanish-American War
  36. Icons of Aviation History: The P-51 Mustang
  37. Martin Guitars
  38. The Jersey Devil
  39. The Russian Woodpecker (No, It’s Not a Bird)
  40. The Nazi Aircraft Carrier “Graff Zeppelin”
  41. “Black Hawk Down”
  42. The Lost Colony of Roanoke
  43. Edgar Allan Poe’s Grave
  44. The Hawaiian Goose
  45. The Arabic Game of Al-Qirqut
  46. The British Raid on Taranto Harbor
  47. Making Some Stone Tools
  48. The Chauchat Light Machine Gun
  49. How George Washington Helped Start the French and Indian War
  50. Dire Wolf: The Big Bad Wolf Wasn’t Really A Wolf After All
  51. The Packard Auto Company
  52. Icons of Aviation History: The B-17
  53. The “Girt Dog” of Ennerdale

2020 58

  1. The Tentacled SNake’s Remarkable Fishing Gear
  2. The 1914 Christmas Truce
  3. Icons of Aviation History: F4F Wildcat
  4. History of Some British Idioms
  5. When Ocean Liner Fought Ocean Liner
  6. Patolli: The Game of the Aztecs
  7. The Roots of the French and Indian War
  8. Tampa Bay FL In The Civil War
  9. The Last Day of world war one
  10. Wild california; Gray whales
  11. The space shuttle
  12. Florida’s native american nations
  13. Florida’s Yamato colony
  14. Bell X-1
  15. USS Alabama
  16. Icons of aviation history: Grumman TBF Avenger
  17. The Royal Game of Ur
  18. Truman’s “Little White House”
  19. The Great Lakes Aircraft Carriers
  20. The Battle of Sekigahara
  21. The First Lincoln Assassination Attempt
  22. The DUKW
  23. Icons of Aviation History: SE5a
  24. History of Chocolate
  25. The Boxer Rebellion
  26. The F-1 Rocket Engine
  27. Battle of the Coral Sea
  28. Ten Oddest Aircraft
  29. A Shameless Plug
  30. Windover Burials
  31. Icons of Aviation History: Il-2 Shturmovik
  32. The History of Horror Movie Blood
  33. The Mag Lab
  34. Roman Gladiator Types
  35. The German POWs in Florida
  36. Mancala: The World’s Oldest Boardgame?
  37. Icons of Aviation History: Boeing 40B Airmail Carrier
  38. The First Kennedy Assassination Attempt
  39. Britain’s Civilian Aircraft Carriers
  40. The 1922 Washington Treaty
  41. Diesel: A Utopian Reformer and His Engine
  42. Disney World’s Amphi-Cars
  43. A Shameless Plug: My New Book Available
  44. Wild Florida: Atala Butterfly
  45. Wild Florida: The Monarch Butterfly
  46. A Shameless Plug
  47. Icons of Aviation History: The Polikarpov I-16
  48. NASA’s Orion Spacecraft
  49. A History of Children’s Museums
  50. The History of Mardi Gras
  51. Elvis Presley’s Birthplace
  52. The US Army Camel Corps
  53. The Kennedy Bunker
  54. The Black Soldiers of the Confederacy
  55. The Japanese Army Aircraft Carriers
  56. T Rex Family Life
  57. When Pancho Villa Invaded New Mexico
  58. Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles

2019 57

  1. Icons of Aviation History: B-24 Liberator
  2. Icons of Aviation History: Nieuport 28C
  3. Gustav Whitehead and the First Airplane
  4. Sonic Wind and “The Fastest Man On Earth”
  5. Icons of Aviation History: B-36 Peacemaker
  6. The Yankee Whalers
  7. Senet: The Game of the Pharaohs
  8. The El Paso Salt War
  9. The Last Day of World War One
  10. Icons of Aviation History: Caudron G.4
  11. The Halifax Explosion
  12. Jack Kerouac House, Orlando FL
  13. A Shameless Plug: My Newest Books
  14. Mission San Luis, Florida
  15. The Experimental Submarine USS Albacore
  16. Samuel Slater’s Textile Mill
  17. Birmingham 16th Street Church Bombing
  18. Mao’s War on Sparrows
  19. The Assassination of Gov Frank Steunenberg
  20. The Confederate Attack on New York
  21. The Albigensian Crusade
  22. The Watermelon War
  23. The Toronto Circus Riot
  24. The Peshtigo Fire of 1871
  25. The Hartford Convention
  26. Icons of Aviation History: B-50 Super Superfortress
  27. Battle of Craney Island
  28. Crackpots: The Moon Landing Deniers
  29. Fort Christina and New Sweden
  30. The Pork and Beans War
  31. Laura Secord: Canada’s “Paul Revere”
  32. When Pepsi Had a Navy
  33. Five Minutes at Midway
  34. Icons of Aviation History: Airco DH-2
  35. Dyna-Soar
  36. The Interstate Highway System
  37. The Roman Calendar
  38. Green Screening: A History of SFX Movie Compositing
  39. Project HORIZON: The American Military Base on the Moon
  40. Castle Itter: When Americans and Nazis Fought on the Same Side
  41. Fishguard: When France Invaded England
  42. The Gabon Nuclear Reactor
  43. Pizza-Gate
  44. Mark 5 Nuclear Bomb
  45. Icons of Aviation History: Macchi C.200 Saetta
  46. When the Viking Hastein Tried to Invade Rome
  47. North Carolina’s Kirk-Holden War
  48. Icons of Aviation History: Ryan M-2 “Spirit of St Louis”
  49. Icons of Aviation History: Voisin 8
  50. The “QAnon” Conspiracy Theory
  51. The Mexican-American War
  52. The Story of Barnard’s Star
  53. Russia, History, and Vladimir Putin
  54. Icons of Aviation History: 19109 Wright Military Flyer
  55. History of Surfing
  56. The Longest Paddle
  57. The Strange Story of the Tasaday

2018 56

  1. The Maccabean Revolt
  2. Icons of Aviation History: Bleriot XI
  3. The Toledo War
  4. Louisville’s Bloody Monday
  5. A Shameless Plug
  6. Arizona’s Pleasant Valley War
  7. The Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson
  8. Icons of Aviation History: F-4 Phantom II
  9. 14-bis: The Second Airplane
  10. The Scallop Wars
  11. Project Home Run: The Secret Spy Flights Over the Soviet Union
  12. The Mormon Rebellion
  13. The Great (Little) Train Robbery
  14. The Story of “New Coke”
  15. The Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson
  16. America’s First Mental Hospital
  17. The Teapot Dome Scandal
  18. Wild Florida: The Fiddler Crab
  19. Icons of Aviation History: Curtiss Jenny
  20. Battle of Los Angeles
  21. A Shameless Plug
  22. Where is Columbus Buried?
  23. Elmer Ellsworth and the Civil War
  24. Who Invented the Light Bulb?
  25. The American in the Tower of London
  26. The Year of Four Emperors
  27. First US Air Force: The Civil War Balloon Corps
  28. The Mad King of France
  29. Zheng Yi Sao: The Chinese Pirate Queen
  30. History of GPS
  31. Icons of Aviation History: F-22 Raptor
  32. The History of Embalming
  33. Icons of Aviation History: F-117 Nighthawk
  34. Pelagornis: The Largest Flying Bird
  35. Icons of Aviation History: Wright Flyer III
  36. The Whiskey Rebellion
  37. “Come Get This Goddamn Cat”: Kiddo’s Failed Trip Across the Atlantic
  38. “Mr Madison’s War”: Opposition to the War of 1812
  39. How Eli Whitney Provoked the Civil War
  40. Saving Pere David’s Deer
  41. Baltimore’s Civil War Riot
  42. England’s 1381 Peasant Revolt
  43. The “Batavia” Mutiny
  44. Akhenaton: The Heretic Pharaoh
  45. The Homestead Steel Strike
  46. Ghosts of the Ice Age
  47. Edsel: The Story of a Failure
  48. The Indian Stream Republic
  49. Hawaii: America’s First Overseas Conquest
  50. The Seminole Wars
  51. Kingfish: The Colorful Career of Huey Long
  52. WS-125: The Atomic-Powered Bomber
  53. Ghost Ship: The “Lyubov Orlova”
  54. The Soviet Serial Killer
  55. Written in Bone: The Denisovans
  56. Icons of Aviation History: Junkers Ju-87 Stuka

2017 59

  1. Icons of Aviation History: Sopwith Camel
  2. The Fort Mims Massacre
  3. Fort Bowyer: Last Battle of the War of 1812
  4. A Shameless Plug
  5. The Archerfish
  6. Florida’s Invaders: Chinese Privet
  7. Bagpipes: A History
  8. Champ: America’s Loch Ness Monster
  9. To Fight Another Day: The Ships From Pearl Harbor
  10. Black Sox: How the 1919 World Series Was Rigged
  11. The Nuclear Disaster at Chernobyl
  12. The Aeroluge Snow Car
  13. The Vermont Republic
  14. Tanganyika: The Naval Battle in the Jungle
  15. The Trans-Saharan Ostrich Expedition
  16. Florida’s Invaders: Water Lettuce
  17. Linguistics and the Brothers Grimm
  18. The First Dinosaur
  19. USS Michigan: The US Navy’s First Iron-Hull Ship
  20. Icons of Aviation: A-1 Triad
  21. When the Confederates Invaded Vermont
  22. Bushnell’s “Turtle”
  23. The Nuclear Football
  24. The Forgotten Civil War Campaign in New Mexico
  25. Icons of Aviation: Fokker Eindekker
  26. The Wreck of the “Edmund Fitzgerald”
  27. The Kansas City Massacre
  28. Icons of Aviation: Morane-Saulnier N
  29. Icons of Aviation: Wright Flyer
  30. The Battle of Chickamauga
  31. Icons of Aviation: The Wright 1902 Glider
  32. The Man Who Served on Both Sides in WW1
  33. Last Voyage of the “Arabia”
  34. Florida’s Invaders: Flamingo
  35. Button Gwinnett’s Untimely End
  36. Blanchard’s Cross-Channel Balloon Flight
  37. The Flying Tigers
  38. The Iowa Cow War
  39. The Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn
  40. Bridge on the River Kwai: The True Story
  41. Egypt’s Animal Mummies
  42. Florida’s Invaders: The Nile Monitor
  43. The Lowry War
  44. A Shameless Plug
  45. Florida’s Invaders: The Apple Snail
  46. Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
  47. Florida’s Invaders: The Wild Pig
  48. The Lustron Home
  49. Wild Florida: The Longleaf Pine
  50. Icons of Aviation History: Ki-43 Oscar
  51. White Nose Syndrome and American Bats
  52. Dreadnoughts: The Ships that Changed the World
  53. The Zaporozhian Cossack Letter
  54. Farmer’s rebellion: A History of the Grange Movement
  55. King Ethelred the Unready
  56. History of the HMS Belfast
  57. Fort Pitt and the French and Indian War
  58. Dinosaur Central: Jack Horner and the Museum of the Rockies
  59. ENIAC: A History of One of the Earliest Computers

2016 85

  1. The Real Secrets of Area 51
  2. The 1914 Christmas Truce
  3. Saving the California Condor
  4. Icons of Aviation History: Messerschmitt Bf-109
  5. The Gunfight at the OK Corral
  6. Snipers in the Civil War
  7. JFK, Santa Claus, and Nuclear Testing
  8. The History of Islam in Indonesia
  9. The Gombe Chimpanzee War
  10. Florida’s Invaders: Kudzu
  11. Icons of Aviation History: MiG-29
  12. A Flash of Color: Discovering Dinosaur Pigments
  13. Houdini: The Real Story
  14. The “Hindenburg” Recording
  15. The Roswell UFO Crash
  16. The Jayuya Uprising and Puerto Rican Independence
  17. Centralia PA: The Fire Down Below
  18. Wild Florida: The Black Widow Spider
  19. The Other Custers: Little Bighorn
  20. Icons of Aviation: F-104 Starfighter
  21. The Tale of a Brick Wall
  22. The Flight of Apollo 8
  23. The Assassination of James Garfield
  24. Does “Chronic Lyme Disease” Really Exist?
  25. Icons of Aviation: Fokker Dr1 Triplane
  26. Florida’s Invaders: The Rhesus Monkey
  27. The Odd Phemonenon of “Morgellons Disease”
  28. Zhenbao: Mao’s Almost-War With the USSR
  29. The Wright Brothers Photo
  30. Wild Florida: The Great Egret
  31. Avocados and the Mexican Drug Cartels
  32. Florida’s Invaders: The Cuban Tree Frog
  33. Escape From Alcatraz: An Update
  34. The Peel P50: The World’s Smallest Automobile
  35. The Tin Can Tourist Club: A History of the RV
  36. Bob Jones University: A History
  37. America’s Jack the Ripper: The Austin Serial Killer
  38. One Word
  39. Icons of Aviation History: F4U Corsair
  40. Salk, Sabin and the Polio Vaccine
  41. Ishi: The Last of the Yahi Nation
  42. A History of European Armor
  43. Operation K: The Second Raid on Pearl Harbor
  44. Icons of Aviation History: The Mitsubishi A6M Zero
  45. London’s Double-Decker Buses
  46. The Dash 80: When Boeing Bet the Entire Company, and Won
  47. PPSh: The Russian Tommy Gun
  48. The Tybee Bomb: When the USAF Dropped a Nuclear Weapon on Savannah GA
  49. How Teddy Roosevelt Won the Nobel Peace Prize
  50. The Bombardment of Fort Pulaski
  51. Malls: A History of the Suburban Shopping Mecca
  52. Trofim Lysenko and Soviet Science
  53. The Strange Case of the Cyanide Grass
  54. How “Traditional Chinese Medicine” Is Pushing Species to Extinction
  55. Written in Bone: The Banded Iron Formations
  56. Florida’s Invaders: Fire Ant
  57. The Sears Tower: History of a Landmark
  58. Drafting Dolphins: A History of the Military’s Marine Mammal Program
  59. GI Joe vs The Volcano
  60. England’s Bloodiest Day: The Battle of the Somme
  61. Icons of Aviation History: The Martin MB-2 Bomber
  62. Aurora Seven: The Forgotten Mercury Mission
  63. Icons of Aviation History: The Sacred Cow
  64. ALH84001: Proof of Life on Mars?
  65. The House of Hanover: How a Minor German Noble Became the King of England
  66. Snooty the Manatee
  67. The Pennsylvania Long Rifle and the Henry Gun Factory
  68. The Story of the One-Day President
  69. Nakhimov: The Ship That Was Sunk Twice
  70. The Battle of Nashville
  71. McKinley: The Forgotten Assassination
  72. Icons of Aviation History: The Polar Star
  73. Cadbury Castle and the Legend of King Arthur
  74. The First Flights: The Montgolfier Brothers
  75. The Crystal River Nuclear Plant: How Progress Energy Broke Its Own Nuke
  76. Earth’s Other Moons
  77. Icons of Aviation History: Albatros D5a
  78. How CBS Smothered the Smothers Brothers
  79. Alfred Nobel and his Prize
  80. Florida’s Invaders: Melaleuca
  81. Yamamoto Otokichi’s Unintentional Trip Around the World
  82. Written in Bone: Velociraptor
  83. Eleven Lost Days: Switching the Calendar
  84. Nagasaki: The Forgotten Bomb
  85. Milestones in Space Exploration: The Manned Orbiting Laboratory

2015 251

  1. Dawn of the Atomic Age: The First Nuclear Reactor
  2. Wild Florida: The Great Blue Heron
  3. Who Was Really First to the North Pole?
  4. Broken Arrow: America’s Lost Nuclear Weapons
  5. Icons of Aviation History: The Martin B-10
  6. Billy Joel and “Allentown”
  7. Pennsylvania’s “Roswell”: The Kecksburg Flying Saucer
  8. Icons of Aviation History: The B-1 Lancer
  9. Written in Bone: Lystrosaurus
  10. Ota Benga: The Man in the Zoo
  11. The Jayne Mansfield Story
  12. Milestones in Space Exploration: The Redstone Rocket
  13. Black Beetle: The First Jet-Engine Locomotive
  14. The Last Day of World War One
  15. Florida’s Invaders: The Spectacled Caiman
  16. Mata Hari: The Real Story
  17. Pennsylvania’s Slate Belt
  18. The Lost State of Franklin
  19. Icons of Aviation History: The F-82 Twin Mustang
  20. Was Billy the Kid Granted a Pardon?
  21. Icons of Aviation History: The NC-4
  22. Bunker Hill: The Most Famous Battle the Americans Lost
  23. History of the Hollywood Walk of Fame
  24. Titusville PA: The First Oil Well
  25. The Disappearance of the Carolina Parakeet
  26. Wild Florida: The Florida Red Belly Turtle
  27. Camp Chase And The Confederate Prisoners in Ohio
  28. How an American Pilot Secretly Helped to Sink the “Bismarck”
  29. Boudicca and the Iceni Rebellion
  30. The Walking Purchase
  31. The Wall Street Plot to Depose FDR
  32. “Piltdown Chicken”: The Archaeoraptor Fraud
  33. The Most Endangered Bird: The Fight to Save the Guam Kingfisher
  34. Slinky: A History
  35. A History of NAFTA
  36. Kirishitan: Christianity and the Japanese Shoguns
  37. Central Park Zoo: America’s First Zoo
  38. Philadelphia Zoo: America’s First Zoo
  39. The Top Air Ace of the Vietnam War
  40. Iconic Hand Guns of the Second World War
  41. Can a Tick Bite Force You to Become a Vegetarian?
  42. Icons of Aviation: The “Que Sera Sera”
  43. How Kodak’s Own Invention Killed the Company
  44. Last Meal: A Gustatory History of the Death Penalty
  45. History of the Kayak
  46. Lincoln Conspiracy: The Other Victims
  47. Ghost Bomber: The Mystery of the Missing B-25
  48. The Quasi War: When the US Fought France (Sort Of)
  49. The Story of Ellis Island
  50. Cottingley: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Fairie Folk
  51. The Bari Air Raid: When the Allies Unintentionally Gassed Their Own Side
  52. History of the Frisbee
  53. The 1848 Revolutions: “The People’s Spring”
  54. Shaka Zulu: The Real Story
  55. The Bermuda Triangle and the Disappearance of the USS Cyclops
  56. The Cocaine King: Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel
  57. The 1947 Candy Bar Strike
  58. Treblinka: The Forgotten Camp
  59. How a Bear Almost Ended the World
  60. The Myth of the Piranha
  61. The Molly Maguires
  62. The Derweze Firepit: Turkmenistan’s “Gateway to Hell”
  63. Wells Cathedral
  64. The First (And Last) Voyage of the “Vasa”
  65. The Oarfish: Nature’s Deep-Sea Oddity
  66. A President’s Secret Operation: How Grover Cleveland Hid His Cancer Surgery
  67. The Montauk Monster: A New York Mystery
  68. The Mystery of DB Cooper
  69. Edward Cope, Othniel Marsh, and the “Bone Wars”
  70. Space Race: Why the US Let the Soviets Win
  71. Anarchy for the UK: A History of the Sex Pistols
  72. Wild Florida: Bald Eagle
  73. The War Room: Churchill’s Secret Underground Bunker
  74. Close Calls: Presidential Assassination Attempts
  75. Fort DeSoto, Tampa Bay FL
  76. Written in Bone: Ambulocetus
  77. The Birth of the Armored Tank
  78. The Bat Bomb–America’s Oddest Weapon
  79. Where Did Florida’s Sand Come From?
  80. The Strange Story of “Miss Unsinkable” Violet Jessop
  81. Mr Colt’s Peacemaker
  82. The Viking Mars Mission
  83. Monte Verde–The First Americans?
  84. Sunshine Skyway: The Day the Bridge Came Down
  85. The Republic of West Florida
  86. Three Mile Island: A History of America’s Worst Nuclear Accident
  87. Skylab and the Sit-Down Strike in Space
  88. Ferdinandea: The Island that Everyone Wanted and Nobody Got
  89. Wild Florida: The Southern Black Racer Snake
  90. The Voyage of the “Trieste”
  91. Valentina Tereshkova: The First Woman in Space
  92. America’s First Roswell: The Aurora UFO Crash
  93. “On Its Stomach”: The History of Military Rations
  94. Pi-Ramesse: Egypt’s Oddest Mystery
  95. Wild Florida: The Mangrove
  96. Written in Bone: Archaeopteryx
  97. Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling: When Pandas Came to DC
  98. Icons of Aviation: Fokker D7
  99. Queen of the Seas: The History of the RMS Queen Mary
  100. St Augustine FL: America’s Oldest City
  101. The Lafayette Escadrille
  102. Wild Florida: The Florida Cottonmouth
  103. Mansa Musa I: The Richest Person in History
  104. How the Electric Guitar Changed the World
  105. Tswaing: Africa’s Meteor crater
  106. The Last of the Romanovs?
  107. How Two Boston Socialites Saved the Egrets From Extinction
  108. Space Toilets: How to “Go” In Space
  109. Pooties: A History of the House cat
  110. The Liberator Pistol: A History
  111. The USS Vincennes and Iran Air Flight 655: When the US Shot Down a Civilian Airliner
  112. Coxey’s Army: The First “Occupiers”
  113. The Kola Borehole: The Deepest Spot on Earth
  114. The Extermination of the Stellar’s Sea Cow
  115. Tenerife: The Deadliest Aircraft Accident
  116. The East India Company: A History
  117. Florida’s Invaders: The Walking Catfish
  118. George Washington’s CIA: The Culper Spy Network
  119. Did Fidel Castro Almost Play Baseball for the US Major Leagues?
  120. Massive Retaliation: A History of US Plans for Nuclear War
  121. The Nation’s First Capitols
  122. Alcock and Brown: The First Transatlantic Flight
  123. Niihau Island: How a Lone Shot-Down Pilot Led to the Wartime Imprisonment of Japanese-Americans
  124. Who Was the Piltdown Hoaxer?
  125. One Gravestone in Tampa
  126. Cicciolina: The Porn Star in Parliament
  127. The Baghdad Battery
  128. Akershus: Oslo’s Royal Fortress
  129. The Story of “Clever Hans”
  130. Wild Florida: Black Skimmer
  131. Venera: The Soviet Program to Study Venus
  132. Gettysburg: The Strange Story of Private Wesley Culp
  133. Pan Am: America’s First International Airline
  134. Florida’s Invaders: Armadillo
  135. Jimmy Stewart and the Abominable Snowman
  136. The “Bloop”: A Mystery Is Solved
  137. The Smithsonian Institution: A History
  138. “Urgent Fury”: The American Invasion of Grenada
  139. “Because It’s There”: George Mallory and the First Attempts to Climb Everest
  140. Written in Bone: Pachyophis
  141. The Railroads and the Civil War
  142. Florida’s Invaders: Brazilian Pepper
  143. The Spanish Civil War
  144. Nucleon: Ford’s Plans for an Atomic-Powered Car
  145. Our Lady of the Nile: Florida’s Egyptian Mummy
  146. The Wright Model B Airplane and the Patent Wars
  147. The St Louis Arch: Gateway to the West
  148. Rebellion in the Trenches: The French Army Mutiny of 1917
  149. Written in Bone: Cynognathus
  150. Wild Florida: Osprey
  151. The Evolution of the Nuclear Bomber
  152. Shays Rebellion
  153. 21st Century Arks: The History and Future of Zoos
  154. Icons of Aviation: Macchi C.202 Folgore
  155. Ramen: A History of Every College Kid’s Favorite Food
  156. Game of Kings: The History of Chess
  157. Florida’s Invaders: Capybara
  158. The Evolution of Stone Tools
  159. Alexander Berkman and American Anarchism
  160. Wild Florida: Stingrays
  161. Hidden History 3 now available for paperback and Kindle
  162. The “Vela” Mystery
  163. Khalkhin Gol: The Forgotten War Between Japan and the USSR
  164. Written in Bone: Paleobatrachus
  165. Florida’s Invaders: Tokay Gecko
  166. The Speech Nixon Never Gave: What if the Moon Landing Had Failed?
  167. Dud: A History of the Mark XIV Torpedo
  168. Florida’s Invaders: The Air Potato
  169. The First Dinosaurs
  170. The Bicycle: A History
  171. The Tuskagee Airmen
  172. Wild Florida: Barracuda
  173. Guy Fawkes: The Real Story
  174. How a Speech Saved Teddy Roosevelt’s Life
  175. How John Leal Put Poison In Our Drinking Water–And Saved Us All
  176. The True Story of Typhoid Mary
  177. Florida’s Invaders–The African Killer Bee
  178. The Surreal Life of Robert Lincoln
  179. The Strange History of Corn Flakes
  180. Wild Florida–Coral Snake
  181. The American Carrier Attacks on Pearl Harbor
  182. The History of the Egyptian Pyramids
  183. Getting Naked: How Early Humans Lost Their Fur
  184. The INF Treaty: When the Nuclear Arms Race Got a Little Less MAD
  185. Genetic Engineering: A Military History
  186. Socialist Party: One of The Most Successful “Third Parties” in US History
  187. Kalashnikov AK-47: A History of the Most Widespread Gun in the World
  188. The Liberty Bell’s Wagon Trip
  189. The Comrade’s Car: The Tatraplan
  190. The “Wilhelm Scream”
  191. The Tokaimura Nuclear Accident
  192. Lucky Luciano: The Man Who Organized “Organized Crime”
  193. How Buddhism Conquered Asia
  194. White Bird: The Disappearance of Charles Nungesser
  195. Florida’s Invaders–Cane Toad
  196. Eratosthenes and the Size of the Earth
  197. Cahokia: The Forgotten City
  198. Escape From Alcatraz: The True Story
  199. The St Valentine’s Day Massacre
  200. Master Sgt Michael Arooth: The Forgotten Ace
  201. Chicago 1968: The Whole World Was Watching
  202. Wild Florida–Moray Eels
  203. Written in Bone: The Murtchison Meteorite
  204. Edison, Westinghouse, and the “Current Wars”
  205. How Vasiliy Arkhipov Saved the World
  206. Milestones in Space Exploration: Surveyor
  207. Martha: The Last Passenger Pigeon
  208. Icons of Aviation: Winnie Mae
  209. Apartheid in South Africa: A History
  210. Voyage of the “Minnow”: The Story of Gilligan’s Island
  211. Wild Florida–Little Blue Heron
  212. The 1996 St Petersburg FL Riots
  213. Mathias Rust and his Flight to Moscow
  214. Avebury Stone Circle
  215. The Vigeland Sculpture Park, Oslo, Norway
  216. James Bond and the Walther PPK Pistol: A History
  217. Florida’s Invaders–The Green Iguana
  218. Thomas Paine: America’s Most Radical Founding Father
  219. Think YOU’RE Tough? The Story of Hugh Glass
  220. The Last Soldiers of the Second World War
  221. The “Wow!” Signal
  222. Christian Mysticism: A History
  223. The Arab-Israeli Conflict: An Historical Overview
  224. Cursed! The Story of the Hope Diamond
  225. Wild Florida: Horseshoe Crab
  226. The Banana: A Social History of the World’s Most-Cultivated Fruit
  227. Wild Florida: Ant Lions
  228. The Pastry War: How a French Bakery Caused a War in Mexico
  229. Wild Florida–Orb Weaver Spiders
  230. The Strange Journey of Einstein’s Brain
  231. Key West and the Conch Republic: “We Seceded Where Others Failed!”
  232. Pioneers of African-American Liberation
  233. Wild Florida–White Ibis
  234. Sealand: The World’s Smallest Nation
  235. Chicken Politics: Life in the Flock
  236. The Bounty Mutiny
  237. The Mexican Revolution of 1910
  238. Blackbeard and the Golden Age of Piracy: A History of the Pirate Ship “Queen Anne’s Revenge”
  239. Wild Florida — Key Deer
  240. The 1877 “Great Strike” and the Reading Massacre
  241. Plan Red: The Secret US Blueprint for War With the UK
  242. The “Beast”: A History of Presidential Limousines
  243. H-Bomb: The Design of Thermonuclear Weapons
  244. Fat Man and Little Boy: The Design of the Atomic Bombs
  245. Turtles on the Brink
  246. Florida’s Invaders–The Love Bugs
  247. Titanic: How the US Investigation into the Sinking Almost Didn’t Happen
  248. The Day the Cops Bombed Philadelphia
  249. Jesse James: The Real Story
  250. The Course of Human Events: Writing the Declaration of Independence
  251. The Fish That Walked

2014 79

  1. Wild Florida–Bonnethead Shark
  2. The Aleutians Campaign: The Only US Territory to be Invaded in World War II
  3. The Strangest Wars in History
  4. The Strange Death of Mary Reeser
  5. Wild Florida-American Crocodile
  6. The Haymarket Riot
  7. Who Really Shot Down the Red Baron?
  8. Wild Florida–Prickly-Pear Cactus
  9. Presidential Pets
  10. “Sue”: The Most Complete T Rex Skeleton Ever Found
  11. The Sky is Falling: The Life and Death of Skylab
  12. Public Enemy Number One: The FBI’s Ambush of John Dillinger
  13. Tsavo Man-Eaters: The True Story of the Ghost and the Darkness
  14. Mary Anning and British Paleontology
  15. A Shameless Plug
  16. Florida’s Invaders–Burmese Python
  17. When Whales Walked: The Evolution of Cetaceans
  18. Wild Florida–Salt Marsh Snake
  19. The Gunboat “Philadelphia”: The Birth of the US Navy
  20. The First Electric Cars
  21. Pierre Le Gloan: Ace for Both Sides
  22. The American War With Korea (No, Not THAT One)
  23. Wild Florida–Florida Black Bear
  24. The Pfeil Fighter: Push-Me Pull-You
  25. Empire State Express No. 999: First Locomotive to Reach 100 mph
  26. Back From the Dead: The Story of the Coelacanth
  27. The Airphibian: The Car That Flies
  28. Florida’s Invaders–Hydrilla
  29. Yuri Gagarin: First Human in Space
  30. Craig Breedlove, the “Spirit of America”, and the Land Speed Record
  31. Wild Florida–Lubber Grasshopper
  32. Oslo: The Fram Museum
  33. Erich Hartmann: The Real Top Gun
  34. Wild Florida–Pelicans
  35. Was the Pirate Captain Kidd Innocent?
  36. Wild Florida–The Manatee
  37. The Langley Aerodrome A: The Story of “Almost”
  38. Apollo-Soyuz: When the Cold War Thawed Just a Little Bit
  39. Wild Florida–Anhinga
  40. The 1903 Winton “Vermont”: First Car to Cross the US
  41. Changing Stances: How the Dinosaurs in the American Museum of Natural History Rotunda Evolved
  42. The Cradle of Humankind: South Africa and the Story of Human Evolution
  43. The Workers Opposition: Defending Socialism Inside Stalinist Russia
  44. Wild Florida–Eastern Glass Lizard
  45. The Mobile Quarantine Facility: Protecting the Earth From Moon Bugs
  46. Florida’s Invaders — Starling
  47. Nan Wua: A Buddhist Temple in South Africa
  48. The American Lion (Yes, America Once Had Wild Lions)
  49. Florida’s Invaders — Red-Eared Slider
  50. Wild Florida — The American Alligator
  51. Tower of London
  52. “Ida”: The Most Complete Known Fossil Primate
  53. Japan’s WW2 Submarine Aircraft Carrier
  54. The Beagle Hasn’t Landed: The Story of the British Mars Probe “Beagle 2”
  55. Wild Florida: Laughing Gulls
  56. World War One and the Birth of Aerial Warfare
  57. A Shameless Plug :)
  58. Florida’s Invaders: The Lionfish
  59. Tully Monster: An Unsolved Mystery
  60. Florida’s Invaders: Water Hyacinth
  61. The Pig War: How a Dead Hog Almost Led to War Between the US and England
  62. Ohka: The Only Airplane Deliberately Designed to Kill Its Pilot
  63. USS Olympia: The Ship that Made the US a World Power
  64. Florida’s Invaders: The Brown Anole Lizard
  65. The “Spirit of Columbus”: The First Woman to Fly Around the World
  66. World War One: The Birth of Submarine Warfare
  67. F-35 Lightning II: A History of the Most Expensive Military Program Ever
  68. SS American Victory: History of a WW2 Cargo Ship
  69. Wild Florida: Tillandsia Air Plants
  70. Aircraft Carrier in the Sky: The F9C-2 “Parasite Fighter”
  71. Florida’s Invaders: Black-Hooded Parakeet
  72. Kikka: Japan’s WW2 Jet Fighter
  73. World War One: Life and Death in the Trenches
  74. U-505: The Only Captured German Submarine in the US
  75. Corfe Castle, One of the Oldest Castles in England
  76. Winter the Dolphin: Clearwater FL Aquarium
  77. A Little Piece of Mars
  78. The First Passenger Airliner: The Benoist XIV and the St Pete-Tampa Airboat Line
  79. Welcome to the Hidden History Blog.