Today we will begin to confront what is arguably Buffalo’s greatest unsolved mystery—the February 1903 murder of businessman Edwin Burdick in the private ‘den’ of his home at 101 Ashland Avenue. The ...

Before I begin: Check out the Wikipedia entry on ‘Black & Tan Clubs’, and you’ll find that Wikipedia, which is often wrong but never in doubt, claims that the first ‘black and tan club’ (a term for a ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

About six years ago, Alissa Bennett, a director at the Gladstone Gallery, fell under the thrall of Donna Tartt’s 1992 novel, The Secret History. The book traces a coterie of students studying ancient ...

The ivy-covered walls of America's oldest universities hold more than lecture halls and libraries. They conceal secrets. For centuries, exclusive and clandestine organizations have operated just ...

Hollywood got a lot of mileage out of World War II, spinning stories for decades after the last shot was fired. But those movies didn’t tell you everything. For one thing, few addressed the reality ...