PRESS RELEASE: Pawn Stars debuts tonight!
Monday, November 30th, 2009New York, November 2009 – For thousands of years, people all over the world have found themselves with one problem in common: the need for fast cash. Long before banks, ATMs, and check-cashing services, pawnbrokers have provided monetary loans in exchange for personal items of value, and are still helping everyday people make ends meet [...]
A&E set to debut new season of The First 48
Monday, July 6th, 2009Any follower of Jack the Ripper would probably realize the truth behind The First 48: the first 48 hours after any murder or other major violent crime are often the most key to capturing the guilty party. After that, the chances of it becoming a cold case skyrocket. That’s what fascinates about Jack the Ripper: [...]
AxMen Season 2 on March 2
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009I’ve always wondered what AxMen had to do with history. Not that it’s not interesting, but History Channel seems to be going away from history a bit, though the show’s fun.
Great Video from History Channel on Lincoln CGI
Monday, February 9th, 2009Those interested in Stealing Lincoln’s Body might find this video quite interesting! I know I did!
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Preview: Stealing Lincoln’s Body
Sunday, January 25th, 2009As a student of history, I love watching History Channel as well as History International. I was sent this press release by the History Channel folks and since it’s a program I would want to watch, I figured there would be no harm in sharing it with the audience of this blog.
Set your DVRs if [...]
The title of my next Ripper article revealed!
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008Not to be a tease, but my next article looks like it already has a print destination. That’s a relief because it gives me a deadline and a reason to get crackin’ on the writing of the thing.
This piece will be much longer than my Mary Kelly piece in Ripper Notes #28. It will also [...]
First-person sources
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008It’s no secret that I’m working on more articles on the Jack the Ripper crimes. I hesistate to spill the beans on the results of my latest research before the essay is finished and accepted for publication, but I am too excited not to say anything.
I just landed an exciting one-on-one interview with a first-person [...]
The pitfalls of Ripperology
Sunday, June 8th, 2008While researching my next article, I came across this insightful quote. It comes from Wichita homicide investigator Ken Landwehr, the man who headed up the effort to capture the BTK Strangler, and who ultimately succeeded. It’s no easy task solving any murder, but serial murder is perhaps the hardest of all to solve. So when [...]
Challenges to writing history
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007Every writer and every blogger face the same exact challenge each day: the terror of the blank screen (or page). For bloggers, the satisfaction point is reached far more easily. Scan a favorite newspaper, magazine, Web site or message board and, BANG, you have something to react to.
That’s the essence of blogging. Reacting to something [...]
Final Draft: Romanticizing Mary Jane Kelly
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007The following is the final draft of the manuscript that first appeared as the debut blog entry on HistoryHype.com. It has been accepted for publication, the details of which will soon be announced on this site.
Now a bit longer by about 1,000 words, more thoroughly researched and end-noted, it is a better effort than the [...]
Romanticizing Mary Jane Kelly
Monday, July 30th, 2007I can think of few pursuits in historical studies more heartless than the romanticizing of Mary Jane Kelly. Kelly, allegedly 25 and a native of Whitechapel, London, England at the time of her death on November 9, 1888, is allegedly the last of the so-called “canonical five” victims of the Whitechapel fiend known as Jack [...]
Welcome to History Hype!
Friday, July 27th, 2007Welcome to History Hype!
I have interest in a lot of historical topics and rather than go all “special interest” on them, I felt it would be a better use of bandwidth, and well within the interest of keeping the blog active, if I put all my history-directed thoughts in one repository rather than several.
So that’s [...]
