What Happened After the Great Chicago Fire
In October 1871, the Great Chicago Fire nearly wiped out one of America's leading cities. But what h ...View More
Timeline: 1993 - Everything That Happened in '93
Weird History presents Timeline 1993. We are going back to the middle part of the 90s and check the ...View More
What People Ate to Survive In the Victorian Era
What did it mean to eat like a Victorian? There was no single culinary experience in the 19th centur ...View More
Facts About Hannibal You Didn't Learn In School
If you've heard of General Hannibal (247-183 BCE), you're probably thinking of the guy who rode seve ...View More
How the Pinkerton Agency Laid the Foundation for the FBI and CIA
If you're interested in knowing about the origins of government agencies like the FBI, the Secret Se ...View More
What It Was Like to Be a Roman Soldier
Over centuries, the Roman Empire conquered almost the entirety of Europe, giving generation after ge ...View More
What Surgery Was Like In Ancient Egypt
The ancient Egyptians were one of the first great civilizations on the planet. A foundationally well ...View More
Jealous of the Teddy Bear, How President Taft Tried to Make Billy Possum Happen
Presidents William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt battled it out in the election of 1912, even t ...View More
TIMELINE: The 90s Teaser Trailer
Weird History presents - Timeline: The 90s - Imagine watching the world's greatest decade... With th ...View More
Weird Foods People Ate to Get Through the Great Depression
Let's bust one Great Depression myth right off the bat, courtesy of Megan McArdle: “even at the heig ...View More
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