Before modern drug regulation, self-appointed healers and legitimate physicians alike could build fortunes around miracle pills, electrical gadgets, secret formulas, and supposed cures that had never survived serious scientific testing. Some were eventually exposed by experiments, journalists, medical boards, and federal law, but not before America's age of medical quackery made several of them rich and famous.
Long before television, social media, and 24-hour news, competitive newspapers discovered that murder, scandal, disaster, celebrity, and mystery could keep readers buying fresh editions for weeks or even years. These stories reveal how the modern media frenzy was already taking shape while the printing press was still its most powerful weapon.
Long before the world witnessed Princess Diana's tragic story, the Spencer family was even more cursed than it has even been charmed.
The Bible describes Barabbas as the prisoner released by Pilate while Jesus was condemned to crucifixion. Then the extraordinary happened: Barabbas disappeared.
Juana Azurduy De Padilla didn't just fight to free her people. This Bolivian warrior woman rode into battle while pregnant.
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