Category Americas

The Cincinnati Stingers: The WHA’s Buzz in the Queen City

In the mid-1970s, Cincinnati was humming with baseball glory from the Big Red Machine, football fans were cheering on the…

Picture this: It’s the early 1970s. Bell-bottoms are flapping, disco is warming up in the wings, and hockey is a…

When you picture pirates, you probably imagine chaos: rum, cutlasses, and a captain barking orders from a weather-beaten deck. The…

If you were sailing the Caribbean in the early 1700s and saw a towering figure with a beard full of…

Picture this: a creaking wooden ship slicing through turquoise waters, a black flag snapping in the wind, and a crew…

Nestled in the heart of Roslyn, New York, the Blue Spruce Inn wasn’t just a restaurant—it was a beloved landmark…

Imagine a night so hot and violent that the wind itself seemed to catch fire. On October 8, 1871, as…

If you’ve ever wondered how a single spark could reshape an entire city, Scott W. Berg’s The Burning of the…

On a crisp October night in 1871, a single spark turned Chicago into an inferno. Within hours, one of America’s…

Here’s a fascinating topic you won’t find elsewhere: the Plug Uglies. The Plug Uglies were a gang of nativist thugs that…