Overlooked History

This series focuses on interesting stories from history that have been largely forgotten. Learn about national heroes, presidential assassinations, and forward thinking pioneers.

Rutherford B. Hayes	Peter Ney	Violet Jessop
John Steinbeck	Robert Todd Lincoln	Ada Lovelace
Teddy Roosevelt	Joshua Abraham Norton	Mary Katherine Goddard
Robert Smalls	Edith Wilson	Great Fires of 1871
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Part 1	Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Part 2	Henry Flagler
Frank Buck	Sybil Ludington	Bertha Benz
David Rice Atchison	Exercise Tiger	Preston Tucker
Beulah Henry	1844 Peacemaker Accident	State of Franklin
Joseph Warren	Matthew Canning	Pepsi Navy
Pearl Harbor Attack of 1932	Scary Story Contest	Micajah Clark Dyer
Margarine	Buckminster Fuller	Great Molasses Flood
Ernest Shackleton	Alfred Nobel	Luna 2
Anglo-Zanzibar War	Reconquista	Hedwig Kiesler
Heron of Alexandria	First Transatlantic Flight	Zheng He
Toledo War	Florida Republics	Mansa Musa
Nikola Tesla	Victoria Woodhull	Lloyd’s of London
Fanny Crosby	Ibn Battuta	Isaac C. Kidd
Richard Halliburton	US Camel Corps	James Holman
Vasa	Dancing Plague of 1518	Olympic Art Contests
Project Habakkuk	Lady Jane Grey	Rocket Mail
Empire State Building Plane Cr ash	Liverpool and Manchester Railway	USS Akron
Fu-Go	American Hippo Bill of 1910	Martha Gellhorn
Automata, Part 1	Automata, Part 2	Potato Chip
Wilmer McLean	Josephine Cochrane	Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator
Tay Bridge Collapse	William McGonagall	Great Emu War of 1932
Spaghetti Tree Hoax	Tunguska Event	Ruth Elder
Weather Station Kurt	Jeannette Rankin	Cilician Pirates
HMS Campbeltown	Ida Pfeiffer	Whaleship Essex
Phrenology	Sultana	Abraham Lincoln’s Beard
Dord	Percy Shaw	Cardiff Giant
Mason-Dixon Line	Cornelis Drebbel	Winchester Mystery House
Harold Stassen	Telephone	George Lawrence
Lincoln Logs	Celluloid	Assembly Line
	Klondike Big Inch Land Company