Welcome to Scandalous History.
History isn’t boring. The way it’s taught in high school is.
Here you will find some of the stories that make history fun. Like a pope sleeping with his daughter. An American hero who helped bring Hitler to power. America’s most scandalous president (and it’s not Nixon). And a hero of Medieval Europeans who enjoyed making huge pyramids out of the severed heads of thousands of his victims.
These are a few of the juicy stories historians keep to themselves.
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Becoming an Ex President
US Presidents have a 1 in 4 chance of being impeached, quitting, [...]
The Scandalous History of Weed
Ever wonder why weed is illegal. Find out about the history of [...]
The Scandalous History of Contraception
Now that the Supreme Court has decided not all employers have to [...]
Those Randy Romans
The Romans had an effective natural contraceptive. It was a plant called [...]
Molly Go Lightly
Traditionally only men could propose marriage, not women. Under the custom of [...]
Syphilitic Sex Dolls
To combat syphilis, Hitler gave his troops blow-up sex dolls.
Give Peace a Chance
In the last 3500 years there has been just 270 years without [...]
Head Under Heels in Love
In 269 AD St. Valentine, a Catholic priest, was arrested, tortured and [...]
She’s probably getting a bit moldy.
Betty White (b. 1922) is older than sliced bread (invented 1926).
Clean Alligators
President John Quincy Adams kept a pet alligator in the East Room [...]
Lead & Mercury, so refreshing
For birth control, women drank water from a blacksmith's shop because it [...]
Mad Hatter
John Wilkes Booth, a Mad Hatter and [...]
American Whore Story
American spy master Betsy Ross directed her "girls" to sleep with British soldiers [...]
Cat Testicles
Cat testicles have been used as birth control in the form of [...]
Tallulah Cokehead
Tallulah Bankhead stated "Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know — I've [...]
Here’s the Poop
Martin Luther ate a spoonful of his own feces everyday.
Hitler’s American Fan Club
Welcome to Scandalous History. View our latest video, Hitler's American Fan Club. [...]
June 12th
On this date in 1897, Carl Elsener patented a penknife that later became known as the Swiss [...]
May 29th
On this date in 1932 the Bonus Army started to gather in [...]
May 22nd
On this date in 1856 Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner was savagely beaten on the [...]
May 21st
On this date in 1932 Amelia Earhart landed in Derry, Northern Ireland [...]
May 20th
On this date in 1927 Charles Lindberg took off from Roosevelt Field [...]
May 19th
On this date in 1962 Marilyn Monroe sang Happy Birthday to John [...]
May 18th
On this date in 1926 Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared from Ocean Park Beach near [...]
May 17th
On this date in 1990 homosexuality was removed from the list of [...]
May 16th
On this date in 1861 Herman Webster Mudgett was born. Mudgett is better [...]
May 15th
On this date in 1905 the city of Las Vegas was founded. [...]
May 14th
On this date in 1643, four-year-old Louis XIV became king of France [...]
May 13th
On this date in 1931 Jim Jones was born. A Marxist from [...]
May 12th
On this date in 1935 Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith met [...]
May 7th
On this date in 2000 Vladimir Putin was inaugurated as president of [...]
May 6th
On this date in in 1994 Paula Jones filed suit against President [...]
May 5th
On this date in 1925 John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching [...]
May 4th
On this date in 1932 Al Capone started his eleven year prison [...]
May 3rd
On this date in 1469 Niccolò Machiavelli was born. Machiavelli was a historian, philosopher, [...]
May 2nd
On this date in 1536 Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, [...]
May 1st
On this date in 1776 the Illuminati was formed in Bavaria by [...]
April 30th
On this day in 1933 the great Willie Nelson was born. Besides [...]
April 29th
On this day in 1863 William Randolph Hearst was born. Hearst was one [...]
April 28th
On this date in 1789 the Mutiny on the Bounty occured. The [...]
April 27th
On this date in 1773 the British Parliament passed one of the [...]
April 26th
On this date in 1937 the German Luftwaffe conducted its first terror [...]
April 25th
On this date French highwayman Nicolas Pelletier became the first person to [...]
April 24th
On this date in 1984, 48 year old Jerry Lee Lewis married [...]
April 23rd
Today is the Vinalia Urbana, the Roman festival of wine. Every year [...]
April 22nd
On this date in 1994, Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the [...]
April 21st
On this day in 1924 the most famous photo of The Loch [...]
April 20th
On this date in 1889 Adolf Hitler was born. Following World War [...]
April 19th
On this day in 1927 Mae West was sentenced to 10 days [...]
April 18th
On this day in 1480 Lucrezia Borgia, the daughter of Pope Alexander [...]
April 17th
On this day in 1492 Christopher Columbus signed a contract with Spain [...]
April 16
On this date in 1943 Albert Hoffman discovered the effects of [...]
April 15th
On this day in 1922 the US Senate opened an investigation [...]
April 14th
On this day in 1907 one of the most brutal dictators in [...]
The Party Pope
Whether Alexander VI was a good or bad pope continues to be [...]