Rapscallions!

"surprised and excited"

A grab bag of Confederate plots: Fake peace conferences! Robbing banks! Burning down cities! Kidnapping the vice president!

Categories: History, Series 14

Tags: Abraham Lincoln Canada Captain Robert Cobb Kennedy Colonel Robert Martin Confederate States of America crime criminal law international law Jacob Thompson James P. Holcombe Lieutenant John Headley Montreal, QC New York State New York, NY Niagara Falls, ON Ontario Phineas Taylor Barnum Presented by #13 Quebec United States Vermont WIlliam Cornell "Colorado" Jewett

Published: October 7, 2024

Dangerous Excitement

good times never felt so good

The Canadian revolution seemed over... and then the Redcoats seized an American ship, set it on fire, and sent it plunging over Niagara Falls.

Categories: History, Series 13

Tags: Amherstburg ON Buffalo, NY Canada Cleveland, OH Detroit, MI international law Michigan Montreal, QC New York State Niagara Falls, NY Niagara Falls, ON Ohio Ontario Presented by #13 Quebec Toronto, ON United Kingdom United States Vermont War of 1812 Windsor, ON

Published: January 1, 2024

Nuns on the Run

The Awful disclosures of Maria Monk

In 1835 Maria Monk claimed that Montreal's Hôtel-Dieu convent was a vice den. She was making it all up... but Americans desperately wanted to believe her.

Categories: History, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Series 13

Tags: anti-Catholicism Canada Catholicism Christianity civil law London, England Montreal, QC nativism New York State New York, NY nuns Philadelphia, PA Presented by #13 Protestantism Quebec religion Samuel Finley Breese Morse skepticism United Kingdom United States of America

Published: May 29, 2023

520%

if something seems too good to be true, it probably is

William F. Miller promised a 520% return on your investment... and for many it was too good an offer to pass up. Too bad it was all a scam.

Categories: History, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Series 12

Tags: Colonel Robert Ammon crime criminal law Franklin Syndicate Great Railroad Strike of 1877 Montreal, QC New York, NY Presented by #13

Published: November 28, 2022