The pervasive use of the Uncle Sam image as a symbol of determined American military might during World War II served as a rallying point on the home-front. During World War II, Nazi Germany intelligence forces even used “Samland”… Read More ›
Presidential Mythology 
The Drunk Vote: Harrison Hard Cider vs. Van Buren Champagne in 1840 Election
Thomas Jefferson won the 1800 presidential election despite false rumors that he planned to have the Bible seized from every private citizen. Andrew Jackson won in 1828 despite the truth that he killed a man in a duel. Religion and… Read More ›
The Most Shocking Truth About JFK & Marilyn Monroe?
Context is everything. Documentation, even better. It may be devastating to the American people to suggest that a romanticized story they have long cherished and held dear about a beloved President might be, in fact, utterly false or at least… Read More ›
New Evidence Tells Truth of George Washington’s Cherry Tree Tale
For generations, American school children hung classrooms with red-paper hatchets and cherries to honor the first President on his February 22 birthday. Through all those years, kids were told George Washington couldn’t tell a lie and when asked by his… Read More ›
Poisoning the President? Florence Harding & Her Husband's "Strange" Death, August 2, 1923
(This material is copyrighted) She was so inexplicably, almost mystically drawn to Alaska, First Lady Florence Harding had visions of the territory’s snow-capped mountains in her dreams. And nibbling on the frozen treat sensation of 1923 – the Eskimo Pie,… Read More ›
Did Taft’s Taste Cost Him an Election? Plus, a Picture of His Famous Bathtub
Part 2 of 2 No story more indelibly imprints the persona of President William Howard Taft as a fat man and compulsive eater than the claim he became stuck in the bathtub of the lavatory in the presidential bedroom suite, located… Read More ›
The Truth About Taft Getting Stuck in a Bathtub, Part 1
President William Howard Taft is stuck, and he can’t get out. And he’s been in that state for a full century now. He’s stuck in presidential chronology between Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, two legendary egomaniacs whose primped personae forever shadow… Read More ›