Axis of Evel Knievel

The Battle of Fallen Timbers .

The end of Black Hawk's War .

Henry Ford receives a gift from Hitler .

The Great Depression descended into state-sponsored violence on this date in 1932, as President Herbert Hoover oversaw the eviction of the B...

On this date in 1969, President Richard Nixon spoke informally to a group of reporters in Guam and outlined a set of skeletal priorities tha...

Today is the anniversary of the 1967 Detroit riots. On these events and their broader significance, I have a post up The Edge of the Ameri...

On 17 July 1791 -- two years to the day after he proposed the tricolor cockade that would serve as the basis for the modern French flag -- G...

By all accounts, the Bastille was a godforsaken chasm before an assembly of Parisians smashed its gates and burnt it to the ground on this d...

Thirty years ago today, a truck carrying 23 tons of liquid propylene – nearly four tons more than the law permitted – slammed into a concret...

Things have been slower around here than usual... I've been entertaining family and trying to get Real Work accomplished. I'll be ...

On this date in 1939, the German-born serial killer Eugen Weidmann lost his mind – and the head that encased it – to the guillotine outside ...

The day after Gov. George C. Wallace sought to prevent the integration of the University of Alabama, a fertilizer salesman and Klan member n...

On this date in 1963, a Buddhist monk named Thich Quang Duc drove from the Linh-Mu Pagoda in Hue to Saigon, parked his car in a busy interse...

Today is the 34th anniversary of one of the most staggering promotional failures in American sports history. On 4 June 1974, fans who showe...

Today is the anniversary of the 1855 Rum Riots that shook Portland, Maine, on June 2, 1855. The uprisings were inspired by rumors that the ...