Minnie Wallace was 16 when she married the 49 year old mayor of Emporia, Kansas. A month later he was dead. A similar fate befell her second husband....

Even when he was alive, people talked about Captain Irving Carson, Grant's favorite scout, like he was Han Solo. Few realized that he was also a journalist - the first to be killed in battle. Joined by Matt Palmquist (Civilwarhumor), with a new song by Mayhayley's Grave.

The Louis Sullivan-designed Getty tomb in Chicago attracts thousands of visitors, but almost none realize that it contains the remains of a woman who could be compared to Indiana Jones.

Exploring Riverside Cemetery in Moline, IL, to find the gravestone(s) of Francis Dickens, and checking out the graves of some of Dickens' other sons and brothers (all of which are more about Charles Dickens than the actual person buried there). Music by The Chuzzlewits.

Wrestlezone's Ross Berman and former wrestler Nick Jordan present Dickinson and Jackson's pre-duel letters as a pre-match wrestling interview, and The Limited Time records a "ring entrace" song for Dickinson. But did he really shoot Jackson?

Looking into a story in Elizabeth Keckley's biography that she attended a fair in Chicago which featured a wax figure of Jefferson Davis in a dress - and recognized it as one that she had made for Mrs. Davis!

The grave of Button Gwinnett, signer of the Declaration of Independence, was forgotten soon after his death and lost within a few decades - until a high school principal dug him up in the 1950s. But was it really him?

By some accounts, George Frederick Cooke was the greatest tragedian actor of the late 18th and early 19th century; his portrayal of Shakespeare’s Richard III was second to none. Whether he was Scottish, Irish or British was debated in his time; his epitaph reads “Three kingdoms claim his birth / both hemispheres proclaim his worth.” But all who knew him had a few things to say that weren’t quite so complimentary – his biographer, William Dunlap wrote in his diary that Cooke was “a coward, a braggart, a hypocrite, a backbiter, fearing death… yet rushing on to meet him with the…Continue ReadingBring me the Head of George Frederick Cooke

Accounts of Frederick Douglass' riot-inducing speech on the Cambria, his connection to James Garfield, and the solution to a Garfield grave-robbing mystery. Music by Silas Reed

J.W. Wicher, of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, may have had more guts than sense....