In 1742 Tom Bell was probably the most well known product of Harvard College in America. Everyone knew how he dressed, what...
A convicted counterfeiter and a Connecticut slave made the first U.S. coin, called the fugio cent, in fulfillment of a government contract...
Shortly after the end of the Revolutionary war the new American country needed currency, and Stephen Burroughs was happy to oblige. He...
Mysterious Dave Mather came to be a lawman in the old West pretty much by chance. The taciturn son of a Connecticut...
Once the Metropolitan Museum of Art discovered the King Tut ticket scam in 1979, museum officials easily detected the fakes. That’s because...
When David and Levi Slade went into business with their father at his Slade mill in 1837, they had an idea. In...