It’s going to be an intriguing story when the 1860 news report from the Ohio River port town of Hawesville, Kentucky begins “Dr H.A. Davison, it will be remembered, was one of the persons who entered the jail and shot Thomas S. Lowe about a year ago…” First up, murdering Lowe in his cell did not… Continue reading America’s first suicide bomber
19th century social history non-fiction books