8/13/2025: On today’s episode, Valerie presents the birth of the stapler, the monkey wrench, and hypnotism (Yay!), we discuss William...

Witches being burned at the stake, color drawing, 16th century 7/30/2025: On today’s episode, Valerie tells the twisted tale of Elizabeth...

The Balladeer 7/20/2025: On today’s episode, Valerie outlines some revolutionary events (‘twas a big year!), including a shit-ton of...

George’s Dock | Liverpool, 1897 | Wikicommons 7/12/2025: On today’s episode, Valerie recounts the story of a macabre scandal that shocked...

West Point Military Academy, J. Hill, George Catlin, 1828, Aquatint and etching with applied watercolor 6/27/2025: On today’s episode, we...

An 1834 woodcut depicting Jackson's duel with Charles Dickinson from the satirical Major Jack Downing's Life of Andrew Jackson . Downing...

West and West 6/4/2025: On today’s episode, we visit our old friends Napoleon and Lewis & Clark. We discuss the beautiful Arc de Triomphe...

Portrait of James W. Mason, the first African American to serve in the Arkansas Senate. Courtesy of the Arkansas Senate. 5/21/2025: On...

The Whaling Disaster of 1871. Plate 2 5/14/2025: On today’s episode, Valerie touches on the Ku Klux Klan Act and the Franco-Prussian War,...

Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1902 5/7/2025: On today’s episode, Valerie tells the story of a group of 114th Field Artillery Regiment men, who...

Anarchist bombing in New York City 4/30/2025: On today’s episode, Valerie’s Timeline Twist outlines a wild year, including wars, riots,...

Tombstone in Boothill Cemetery, Tombstone, Arizona 4/16/2025: On today’s episode, Valerie shares the calamitous story of the Bisbee...

Ridgeway Street Wanganui looking towards the courthouse circa 1880 4/2/2025: On today’s episode, Valerie covers late 19th century...

Hand-spinning cotton on a great wheel, Normandy, 1773. Source: Archives Nationales (France), F12/560: M. Latapie, ‘Réflexions...

Militiamen Muster 3/19/2025: On today’s episode, Valerie’s Timeline Twist presents notable moments in American history of the...