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...
Snooping in Mobtown: David S. Bookstaver, Secret Cabals, and the Baltimore Assassination Plot of 1861
By February 1861, as President-elect Abraham...
Particular Feelings and Scruples: William Herndon, Zebina Eastman, and the Abolitionist Investigation of Abraham Lincoln
In the winter of 1854, the...
The Silent City: Abraham Lincoln, Elihu B. Washburne, and the December 1854 Mission to Probe Chicago’s Sentiments
In the late fall of 1854,...
The Kabul Preemptive: The KGB, the Infiltration of Babrak Karmal, and the Prelude to the Soviet Invasion
In April 1978, the secular government...
The JAWBREAKER Liaisons: The CIA, the Northern Alliance, and the Clandestine Alliance Against Al Qaeda
The historical relationship between the United...