One-Night Stands with American History

Richard Shenkman, Kurt Reiger

• Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
• Year: 2011
• ISBN:
  9780062105981
• Topic: Histoire
• Subtopic: Histoire de l'Amérique du Nord

Respect yourself in the morning -- read One-Night Stands with American History!

This collection of little-known facts and anecdotes is American history with the boring parts left out. Richard Shenkman and Kurt Reiger have uncovered numerous stories about hoaxes, inventions, secrets, and rare incidents -- many involving the most famous and powerful people in America.

• President U. S. Grant was arrested for speeding in his horse carriage.
• J. Edgar Hoover refused to allow people to walk on his shadow.
• France shipped Louisiana twenty-five prostitutes because women were in short supply in 1721.
• H. L. Hunt won his first oil well in a game of five-card stud.

Even historians find that One-Night Stands with American History features fascinating stories they never knew. Now updated with facts and anecdotes from the last twenty years, this volume is a treasure trove of remarkable stories that will startle, entertain, and inform you. And the best part is that they're all true!

Index

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ABC News, 300

abolitionism, 89, 98, 99

accents, 1

Adams, Franklin P., 182

Adams, Henry, 130, 131

Adams, James, 127

Adams, John, 20, 21, 32, 33, 38, 233, 234, 246

Adams, John Quincy, 18, 53, 54, 55, 246

Adams, New Hampshire, 54

Adamson, Carl, 207

adultery, 9, 37, 40, 45, 71, 72, 75, 76, 77, 260, 298, 299, 300

Africa, 51, 52, 53

Agnew, Spiro, 259

Aguinaldo, 190

airplane, first, 205, 206

Alabama, 36, 64, 118, 129

Alamo, 63, 64, 65

Alexandria, Virginia, 107

Algonquin, 1

Allen, Ethan, 26

Allen, John, 118

ambassadorial ignorance, 273, 274

American Civil Liberties Union, 225

Ames, Fisher, 17

Anaconda Copper Company, 196

Annapolis, Maryland, 18

Appomattox, 105

Aptheker, Herbert, 281

Arens, Richard, 267, 268

Arikara, 44

Arizona, 82

Arkansas, 113, 225, 237, 299

Armstrong, Neil, 259

Army Corps of Engineers, 307, 308, 309

Arnold, Benedict, 57

Arthur, Chester A., 161

Articles of Confederation, 26

assassinations, 60, 61, 122, 157, 194, 195, 196, 212

Astor, John Jacob, 56

Atchison, David Rice, 79

Athens, Alabama, 119

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 297

Atlanta, Georgia, 217, 222, 223

Augusta, Georgia, 36

Austin, Warren, 257

Babbit, E. J., 64

balanced budget, 249

bald eagle, 27

Baldwin, Luther, 38, 39

Baltimore, Maryland, 41

Bank of the United States, 55

Barham, General, 110

Barkley, Alben, 257

Barnum, Phineas T., 132, 133, 134, 205

Barton, Bruce, 225

baseball, 55

bathtub, 218, 219

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 277

Battle of Brandywine Creek, 23

Battle of Buena Vista, 80, 81

Battle of Bunker Hill, 18, 19

Battle of Monterey, 80

Battle of New Orleans, 58

Battle of Santiago, 187

Beaumarchais, Caron de, 19

Beecher, Henry Ward, 112, 138, 148, 149

Beecher, Philomen, 50

Bell, Alexander Graham, 151, 158, 159, 302, 303

Bell Homestead Museum, 303

Benjamin, Judah P., 104, 105

Bennett, James Gordon, 167

Benton, Thomas Hart, 57, 60, 61, 62, 204

Berlin, West Germany, 254, 255

Bey of Tunis, 35

Bible, 1, 225

Biddle, Nicholas, 55

Billings, C. K. G., 181

billy goats, 236, 237

Billy the Kid, 208

Birdseye, Clarence, 214

birth control, 56, 57

Bismarck, North Dakota, 45

blackbirds, 74

Blackhawk War, 102

blackmail, 203, 204

Blakley, William Arvis, 279, 280, 281

Bliss, D. W., 158

bloody shirt, 84

Bonaparte, Joseph, 18

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 18

boom town, 63

Booth, John Wilkes, 105, 122, 157

Borden, Gail, 95

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