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Students hate history. That’s because 95 percent of high school and college history students don’t know what they are supposed to be learning. History is not an academic subject; it’s a tool for life. If history teachers knew what they were doing, they’d be teaching their students to “think like a pirate". Which is exactly what this book does.

History is the most boring subject in school. Don’t believe me? Ask any student. Or listen to the lead story in Newsweek’s combined issue of March 28 & April 4, 2011: “How to Get Smart Again.” If we as teachers want to make history a quality subject we have to make it relevant and interesting. That’s why I wrote The Murder of History: Why Students Hate History and What to Do About It.

History is the most boring subject in school. Don’t believe me? Ask any student. Or read the lead story in Newsweek March 28 and April 4, 2011: “How to Get Smart Again”. If we want to make history a quality subject we have to make it relevant and interesting. What we are going to need are books that offer a fresh perspective on why history is important. What we need are books that are understandable, entertaining, and educational. In a nutshell, books like Who Really Cares What Happened on March 3, 1903?

A gang of diamond bandits holds an entire city hostage for 25,000,000-dollars-worth in gems.

A retired female Alaska state trooper is forced to help drug smugglers in Alaska recover a shipment of cocaine. She is able to escape with the cocaine and being chased by the drug smugglers. She turns the tables and goes from the hunted to the hunter.

The lessons of history are real life lessons. That is because history is real life. History is the study of the future. This book gives the high school students a dozen real life lessons and how to use history to see the future.

February 5, 1898. Witnesses report a giant orange fireball reflected in the glacial waters of Alaska's Lynn Canal. At the height of Klondike gold fever, the Clara Nevada disappeared into an epic storm - taking passengers and priceless cargo with it. Was the explosion an accident or a robbery gone wrong? Did Captain C.H. Lewis make off with $165,000 ($13.6 million in today's currency) in raw gold? Or was the sinking a case of a sea-weary steamer meeting an untimely end?

In this lively narrative Steven C. Levi captures the color and the riches of the Alaska Gold Rush and tells the stories of the larger-than-life characters who lived the adventure. The Alaska Gold Rush at the end of the 19th century was the last great fit of gold fever in North America. Men and women, including African Americans, Portuguese, Japanese, Italians, and Chinese, all rushed north.

Alabama Fats is a real person. For more than half a century his job was to con people on the streets of America out of their money - and he was VERY good at it. Every line in this book is true. That was the way he wanted it. He wanted to make sure his children knew exactly what he had done all those years when he was 'on the road' and away from Cleveland. This book is an unrepentant look at the life of a con man. He is not sorry for a single person he conned. If his knees were better and Cleveland was warmer, he would be on the streets now, looking to take YOUR money.

The saga of the last old style vigilante committees and the first of the new style vigilante committees, a blend that shows the transition.

A first-person narrative of an African-American Socialist labor organizer between 1870 and 1916 and includes his experiences during the Alaska Gold Rush, Seattle General Strike and the San Francisco Open Shop Campaign of 1916.