The Downfall Dictionary

Image from history.nd.gov The town of Yankton, South Dakota, is one of the southernmost communities in the state. Tucked away near the borde...

Image from civil-war.net With the half of the country still missing at the time of the 1864 elections, the question of how to proceed with t...

Hoffman leaves the funeral of Ellis Parker in 1940. Image from pro.corbis.com. Late in the evening on October 17, 1935, Bruno Hauptmann rece...

Source: freep.com Hampered in large part by the sensational murder trial of David Curtis Stephenson and the widespread exposure of co...

Image unavailable The years leading up to the Civil War were fraught with all manner of violent incidents, as the volatile question of slave...

Image from bioguide.congress.gov By 1978, J. Herbert Burke had firmly established himself as the representative from Florida's 10th Dist...

Image from clerk.house.gov The brutal attack of Preston Smith Brooks on a fellow congressman was not the first time violence had erupted on ...