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Something wicked this way comes! Hover over each image to read the title of the blog post. Click on an image to open and read the blog post.

How Sara Gruen Lost Her Life

The Missing Manhattan Socialite

The Recluse Series: Henry Darger

The Recluse Series: Gladys Deacon

The Recluse Series: Ida Mayfield Wood

The Bootlegger, The Wiretap, and the Beginning of Privacy

“The Hatpin Peril” Terrorized Men Who Couldn’t Handle the 20th-Century Woman

The Children Who Went Up In Smoke

Madame Restell: The Abortionist on Fifth Avenue

The Fox Sisters and the Rap on Spiritualism

What (or Who) Caused the Great Chicago Fire?

“Murder Wasn’t Very Pretty”: The Rise and Fall of D.C. Stephenson

The 1904 Olympic Marathon May Have Been the Strangest Ever

The High Priestess of Fraudulent Finance

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