Tag: American History
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The Murder of Elfrieda Knaak
Image: Police Officer Eugene Spaid examines shoes and a purse belonging to Elfrieda Knaak in the furnace room of the Lake Bluff police station, where she was found naked and burned on October 30, 1928. There were also signs of electrocution and head trauma.
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Matthew Henson – The First Man to the North Pole, 1909.
Image: Matthew Henson, American explorer. 1910. Matthew Henson – The First Man to the North Pole, 1909. On April 6, 1909, a team of six men on dog sleds, including the first person to stand on top of the world, an African American man named Matthew Henson, travelled 413 nautical miles off the coast of…
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The Divine Wind: Japanese Kamikazes of World War II
Image: Japanese high school girls wave farewell to departing Kamikaze pilots. “There was a hypnotic fascination to the sight so alien to our Western philosophy. We watched each plunging kamikaze with the detached horror of one witnessing a terrible spectacle rather than as the intended victim. We forgot self for the moment as we groped…
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FREE ARTICLE – The United States Camel Corps, 1856-1866.
Image: Sailors of USS Supply loading a camel aboard. In the 1850s, the U.S. Army conceived a plan to bring several camels from the Middle East into the United States and employ them to travel through large tracts of the American Southwest carrying cargo for the military. As improbable as this seems, it did actually…
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Minnie Ashley, aka Beatrice Chanler, Actress, Society Lady and Humanitarian
·Image: Minnie Ashley 1892 Minnie Ashley, aka Beatrice Chanler, Actress, Society Lady and Humanitarian One of the great beauties of the stage at the end of the 19th century, Minnie Ashley’s talents as a singer and dancer emerged in the madcap musical “1492” in 1892. Ashley was winsome, cheerful, and quick, an actress whose triumphs…
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FREE ARTICLE – Medal of Honor Action of Radio Operator Staff Sergeant Henry ‘Red’ Erwin. April 19, 1945.
Image: Staff Sergeant Henry E. Erwin. In the lead B-29 on a mission to Koriyama, north of Tokyo, he was tasked with releasing white phosphorus smoke bombs through a chute to assist with the assembly of 167 bombers from Guam and Tinian. There were initially no issues, but one phosphorous bomb exploded prematurely and ricocheted…
History Daily With Francis Chappell Black 