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: When Soldiers Traded Swords for Snowballs
- THE FIRST VOTE: A Quiz on the Iowa Caucuses
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Fiasco of ‘Fort Blunder’
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Handling a Hostage Crisis, 1904 Style
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Washington, Napoleon, and An Unlucky British General
- Thanksgiving Quiz: Turkey Day 1923
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Strange Afterlife of Elmer McCurdy
- LABOR DAY QUIZ: Jobs They Worked Before They Were Candidates
- QUIZ: Presidential Debates — Encounters That Make, and Break, Candidates
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Hollywood’s Biggest Flop—The Disastrous 1923 World’s Fair
- A Quiz for July 4: Women of the Revolution
- [IS] OPINIONS Politics HOLY COW HISTORY: The Quarter’s About-Face, By George
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: From Town Character to Cartoon Icon
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Luckiest Fool in the World
- A Quiz for Memorial Day: Presidents’ Fallen Family
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Ready, Set, Surrender! History’s Shortest War
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Milton’s Mishap; When Candy Changed At the Drop of a Hat
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Curious Case of Lincoln’s Funeral Car
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Real Reason Why a Minister Wrote the Pledge of Allegiance
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Another Ex-President’s Brush With the Law
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Woman Who Created Kids’ Television
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Gift That Killed General Grant
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Abraham Lincoln II—The Grandson Honest Abe Never Met
- A Quiz for Presidents Day: Presidential Pets
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Hero Bureaucrat
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Original ‘Son of a Gun’
- Holy Cow! History: From Mom to Motherhood Icon
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Forget George Santos, Meet Congress’ Champion Truth-Stretcher
- YEAR-END QUIZ: Places That Made The News in 2022
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Cal Coolidge’s Crazy Coon
- Talking Turkey: A Thanksgiving Quiz
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: America’s Biggest Lottery Scandal
- How Much Do You Know About Election Day? Take This Fun Quiz
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: 1948, Political Polling’s Epic Fail
- Columbus Meets the New World: A Quiz
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: How We Got Guam
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: How Harry Sent the Hope Diamond
- Before They Were President: A Quiz for Labor Day
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Mussolini and Those Tardy Trains
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Pictures That Never Made It Home
- A Quiz for the Fourth of July
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: America’s Other Independence Day
- WATERGATE at 50: The Security Guard Who Brought Down a President
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Harry Truman, Comic Book Hero
- Holy Cow! History: Memorial Day’s Many Birthplaces
- A Quiz for Memorial Day 2022
- HOLY COW HISTORY: A Dog’s Fond Farewell
- Holy Cow! History: The Record-Setting Tragedy You’ve Never Heard Of
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Harry Hits the Road
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Meet Harry Tracy, the Old West’s Last Outlaw
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: From British Tea to Russian Vodka; A Brief History of Boycotts
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The President’s Love Child
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: For President’s Day, Some Presidential Parting Words
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Log Cabin Lincoln Wasn’t Born In
- HOLY COW HISTORY: Hilda, History’s Original Identity Theft Victim
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Drinking Song Christmas Classic
- Holy Cow! History: Meet the Real Gerber Baby
- POWELL: Remembering Bob Dole
- 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: Meet the Real Ichabod Crane
- Rediscovering America: A Quiz on Christopher Columbus
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Forgotten President and the World’s Most-Spoken Word
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Meet Sallie, The Civil War Vet and West Chester Native
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Woman Who Kissed Hitler at the Olympics
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: A President’s Weird Wish for a Child
- A ‘Holy Cow!’ History Quiz For Your Fourth of July Weekend!
- HOLY COW! HISTORY: Sex and the Single Colonial American
- Holy Cow! History: “I Never Said That!”
- Holy Cow! History: A Child’s Stolen Oscar
- HOLY COW! History: Ted Cruz Wasn’t The First Politician Hurt by a Blizzard
- Holy Cow! History: ‘The President’s Cow Is Missing!’
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