Take a time machine to the Jet Age, that sweet thin spot in the 60s and two brunettes stare you down from every corner newsstand or grocery checkout line. For every Khrushchev, or John Glenn, Ringo, George, Paul… Read More ›
Myths
Beloved tales we can’t help making true.
Liz Taylor Meets Jackie Kennedy: Tabloid Fantasy to Chance Encounter & The Only Photos of Them Together, Part II
Just in case Photoplay’s dismissive March 1964 headline about Liz and Dick had suggested the wedding was a dull afterthought, the tab’s April cover made up for it, featuring the couple kissing with the lure of exclusive photos. The affirmation of… Read More ›
Yes, There was Turkey at the First Thanksgiving
Fiddling is fine for that old standard Turkey in the Straw, but not for that standard old turkey on Thanksgiving. Maybe a need to grab attention is what drives the effort to say what’s always been fact is actually myth,… Read More ›
Uncle Sam: Not the Man They Say He Is (Part 1)
Uncle Sam is a real man named Samuel Wilson, born from two brothers both named John. He was around before there was even a United States and only later became a sexist who overpowered an idealistic young woman who had always loyally… Read More ›
The Black Peep Scandal: An Easter Candy Mystery & The Father of the Jellybean
Fruitcake at Christmas, hot dogs on July Fourth, beer for St. Patrick’s, turkey on Thanksgiving. And, the quintessential American food favorite for Easter? Surpassing the hard-boiled matter once those decorated eggs are cracked, not to mention asparagus, jellybeans, lamb or ham, and… Read More ›
A First Lady’s Princess Complex: Royalty, Racism & Edith Wilson’s Pocahontas Blood
This is the second to last article in a series on First Ladies’ ancestral identities. Previous articles on Michelle Obama, Jacqueline Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Florence Harding, Pat Nixon, Hillary Clinton can be found by searching at right, in the categories… Read More ›
Red, White & Betsy Ross: No, She Didn’t! (Did She?) Plus Bizarre Betsyabilia
There’s good reason why Pennsylvania not only recognizes Independence Day as a national holiday, but also Flag Day as a state holiday. It ‘s all because of that Elizabeth Claypoole. Mrs. Ross, to you. Like Plymouth Rock and George Washington cutting down… Read More ›
Sex Lives of the Pilgrims: Girls Gone Wild, Gay Guys, An Orgy, Incest & Goodwives Chasing Native Men
“Puritanism,” said legendary wit H. L. Mencken, “is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” Clearly, Mencken never pawed through the court record of Plymouth Colony‘s first generations of Pilgrims. In them, one finds eye-popping details of every… Read More ›
Cracking Plymouth Rock: Cold Stone Facts Behind the American Myth
It’s no Statue of Liberty on a New York Harbor pedestal or precious Constitution under low lights in Washington, but it’s the most ancient American relic. Or is it? Legend claims it’s the first bit of land that the first… Read More ›
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