The Master’s Illusion: George Washington, General Heath, and the “Great Bluff” Hoax of August 1776
In late August 1776, the embryonic...
The Morristown Ledger: George Washington’s Art of Deception and the Dinner-Table Disinformation Gambit of 1777
During the dark, frigid winter of...
The Fountain of Intelligence: George Washington and the 1777 Genesis of the New York Secret Service
In the wake of the Continental...
The Spy in the Envoy’s Cloak: George Washington’s 1753 Reconnaissance of Fort Le Boeuf
The Imperial Prelude and the Commission...
The Ohio Mission of 1753: George Washington, Native Intelligence, and the Imperial Clash in the Wilderness
In the late autumn of 1753,...
The Kansas City Bulldog: Harry Truman, Fred Canfil, and the 1939 U.S. Marshal Appointment Crisis
In the late 1930s, as the...
Tommy the Cork in the Crosshairs: The 1945 Political Wiretap of Thomas Corcoran
During the transition of the American...
The Cartel Chokehold: The Truman Committee’s 1941 Expose of Corporate Collusion and the Sabotage of American Preparedness
On the eve of the United...
The Valley Pincers: Abraham Lincoln’s Campaign to Entrap Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah
On May 23, 1862, Confederate Major...
The Frederick Dragnet: Allan Pinkerton, the Union High Command, and the September 1861 Detention of Maryland’s Legislators
In the anxious months following the...