Weird History 101

They Don't Teach You This Stuff in College!
 
 

Another masterpiece by
John Richard Stephens
 

Contents
 

Eyewitness Reports

Eyewitness to Custer's Last Stand

Dinner with Atilla the Hun

Watching Gettysburg and Other Civil War Battles

The Heavy Costs of the Civil War

Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac

Love Letter from a Dead Man

Human Sacrifice at a Viking Funeral

Walt Whitman and President Lincoln's Assassination
 
 

Official Documents

FBI Course on Bomb-Making

Naval Discipline

Survival Under Atomic Attack

A Dire Warning Against the Railroads

A Spy Reveals How Easy It Was to Steal U.S. Secrets
 
 

Alternative Views

Geronimo Tells His Side of the Story

Escape to Alcatraz

U.S. Tried for War Crimes: Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Revolutionary War Crimes

Being Friendly with the Enemy

A Child's View of War

Native Americans vs. Western Civilization
 
 

Firsthand Accounts by
Famous People

Wyatt Earp Tells of the Shoot-Out at O.K. Corral

The Red Baron Describes Being Shot Down

The Sacking of the White House

Jack London Witnesses the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

Mark Twain in Another San Francisco Earthquake

Charles Dickens Witnesses a Death by Guillotine
 
 

Ignorance and Intelligence

Unusual Uses for Mummies

Take Some Lice and Call Me in the Morning

Lost Knowledge Rediscovered

Putting Up Their Wives for Sale
 
 

Odds and Ends

Duels Between Women

Female Boxing Matches

A Dog is Elected Mayor in California

Menu for a Roman Banquet

Houdini's Secrets
 
 

Victims of History

Prisoner on a Slave Ship to America

Letter from the Donner Party

Captured by Indians

The U.S. Army Murders Native Americans

On the Titanic as it Sinks

Inside a Nazi Death Camp
 
 

Weird Literature

Gallows Literature

Some Authentic Pirate Songs

Pirate Laws

Bizarre North Korean Propaganda

John Greenleaf Whittier's Poem About Hash

George Washington Grew Marijuana

Ben Franklin's Advice on Choosing a Mistress

Franklin on Wine

Mark Twain's Speech on Masturbation
 
 

Participants in History

Opium Dens in America

A Pirate's Adventures with Capt. Morgan Sacking Panama

The Supposed Location of Blackbeard's Treasure

I Started World War I

Emperor Nero's Mother Pleads for Her Life
 
 

 American Presidents

Extramarital Affairs of the Presidents (and a Few Other Indiscretions)

Presidential Nicknames

Another Look at Some Presidents

Great Turnarounds

Unintelligible Quotations of U.S. Presidents

U.S. Presidents are Not Elected by the People

Nixon on Watergate
 
 

Strange Religion

The X-Rated Bible

Who's the Antichrist?

Mormon Polygamy

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther and the Fairy Changeling

Weird Saints

So What are Saints Good For?

Phallic Worship in Japan
 
 

Paperback, 8" x 9", 43 illustrations
Published by Adams Media, 340 pages, $14.95

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