About the Author
J. Mark Powell
Holy Cow! History is written by novelist, former TV journalist and diehard history buff J. Mark Powell. Have a historic mystery that needs solving? A forgotten moment worth remembering? Please send it to [email protected]
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: A Hurricane, a Rabbi, and a New Life in America
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: How We Got Guam
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: An Earlier Rail Strike’s Close Call
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: How Harry Sent the Hope Diamond
- Before They Were President: A Quiz for Labor Day
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: When CNN Almost Fell for Fake News
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Veep Who Didn’t Go to DC
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Secret Behind Truman’s Famous Balcony
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower
- Holy Cow! History: The Woman Who Made the President’s Mealtime Miserable
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: History’s Greatest Grudge Match
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Mussolini and Those Tardy Trains
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Pictures That Never Made It Home
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: America’s Biggest Political Blunder, 50 Years Later
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Was Sylvester Graham Crackers?
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: America’s Other Independence Day
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Hero Hooker Who Won Memphis’ Heart
- WATERGATE at 50: The Security Guard Who Brought Down a President
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Harry Truman, Comic Book Hero
- A Quiz For Memorial Day
- HOLY COW HISTORY: Memorial Day’s 25 Birthplaces
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: How the Nazis Helped a Brit Soldier Get England’s Top Medal
- HOLY COW HISTORY: A Dog’s Fond Farewell
- Holy Cow! History: The Scoundrel Who Visited His Lost Leg
- Holy Cow! History: The Record-Setting Tragedy You’ve Never Heard Of
- Holy Cow! History: Radio’s Great Hiney Hoax
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Harry Hits the Road
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Ding Dong! Seizing Your 10 Seconds of Fame
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Meet Harry Tracy, the Old West’s Last Outlaw
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Classic Rock’s ‘Hey Nineteen’ Is On Social Security Today
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: From British Tea to Russian Vodka; A Brief History of Boycotts
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Moscow’s Major Miscalculation
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The President’s Love Child
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Gettysburg’s Last Casualty–23 Years Later
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: For President’s Day, Some Presidential Parting Words
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Meet the Unluckiest Man in U.S. History
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Log Cabin Lincoln Wasn’t Born In
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: History’s Hottest Feud—Presidents and the Press
- HOLY COW HISTORY: Hilda, History’s Original Identity Theft Victim
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Whipping Inflation, 1974 Style
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Washington’s Sad Princess
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Worst First Year as POTUS? It’s Not Joe Biden
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Drinking Song Christmas Classic
- Holy Cow! History: Meet the Real Gerber Baby
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Tiffany’s Extreme White House Makeover
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Thanksgiving, America’s Original Beer Bash
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Teddy’s Traumatized Thanksgiving Turkey
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Famous Candy Bars’ Name Game
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Star-Crossed Love of Stanny and Sara
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Meet the Real Ichabod Crane
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: When the Blackbirds Called on Kentucky
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: America’s Worst Fire, 150 Years Later
- Holy Cow! History: The Forgotten First Fatality
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Man Who Conned the Confederacy
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Scandal That Nearly Killed Hollywood
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Forgotten President and the World’s Most-Spoken Word
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: September’s Strange Straw Hat Riot
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Meet Sallie, The Civil War Vet
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: When the Army Took Back the Medal of Honor
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Caffeine Crazed Chief Executive
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The White House Princess
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: America’s First Female Olympic Gold Medalist
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Woman Who Kissed Hitler at the Olympics
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: A President’s Weird Wish for a Child
- Holy Cow! History: Wild Last Wills of the Rich and Famous
- A “Holy Cow!” History 4th of July Quiz
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Veep Who Got Punked
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Body in the Trunk; Who Killed Elsie Sigel?
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Sex and the Single Colonial American
- Holy Cow! History: “I Never Said That!”
- Holy Cow! History: 111 Prostitutes; The Original Love Boat
- Holy Cow! History: The 14-Year-Old Medal of Honor Recipient
- Holy Cow! History: The Only Submarine Ever Sunk by Its Toilet
- Holy Cow! History: Grandma Gatewood’s Excellent Adventure
- Holy Cow! History: Meet the Five Worst Moms in History
- Holy Cow! History: The 51st State We Almost Had
- Holy Cow! History: A Child’s Stolen Oscar
- Holy Cow! History: These Cherrys Bombed
- Holy Cow! History: The Skinny on Streaking
- Holy Cow! History: Grover’s Strange Wish
- Holy Cow! History: Lulu’s Lost Legacy
- Holy Cow! History: How Ants Made a Broke GI Rich
- Holy Cow! History: The Three Forgotten States of America
- Holy Cow! History: Meet Stagecoach Mary, A Truly American Character
- Ted Cruz Wasn’t The First Politician Hurt by a Blizzard
- How America’s Worst Winter Blew Into A ‘Blizzard’
- Holy Cow! History: ‘The President’s Cow Is Missing!’
- Holy Cow! History: America’s Missing Hero
