Scatman Crothers: Terre Haute Speakeasies to Beloved Stardom
From Terre Haute to the Hollywood Hills...
1916: Man Wearing Dishpan Armor Attacks an Indiana Courthouse
Homemade armor, cobbled together from dishpans, stovepipe, and washtubs...
Before Kellogg’s Cornflakes, America Had Cerealine
Healthy, inexpensive...not so tasty.
Digging is Deadly in this Chicago Forest
By Tim Bean
Just outside Chicago in the 1940s and 50s, visitors strolling down a wide and worn trail of the Red Gate Woods would...
Vinegar Valentines Trolled 120 Years Before Twitter
Anonymous insults, Victorian-style
The Mystery of the Razor-Filled Wall
Sharp and rusty piles of discarded razor blades. Yikes.
Pizza Hut’s BOOK IT!: Awesome Since ’85
35 years of piping-hot pizza deliciousness...
The Terrible Death of William James
Madness.
The Wabash Cannonball: Fact or Folklore?
Ghost train, speedy steamer, or historic hit?
Chicagoland (and Indiana) Loves its “Greek Penicillin”
The Midwest's favorite hot, hearty, and healthy soup.
Indianapolis’s Great Malaria Epidemic
Indy's swamps once bred clouds of mosquitos
The Scandalous Frank Lloyd Wright
By Jennifer Young
Fallingwater, the Guggenheim, Taliesin...
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s early 20th century homes and buildings remain as innovative today as they were when he...
Exploring Ann Arbor’s Urban Fairyland
Dozens of fairy doors have sprung up in Ann Arbor, attracting thousands of visitors a year.
