Kidnapping was a lucrative, dangerous epidemic in the United States between 1925 and 1934. It was a quick, lawless way for desperate people, caught in the harsh times of The Dust Bowl and The Great ...

It’s National Women’s Month, so let’s check out this historical rebel: the crime boss, who worked alongside fellow gangster Bumpy Johnson, during the 1930s. While she went on to rule Harlem during the ...

Rev. versions of papers originally presented at the women's workshop of the biennial conference of the European Association of American Studies, held at the Freie Universität Berlin from Mar. 28-31, ...

Never before has a gallery of cops robbers and daredevil crooks ever been assembled into one collection Using FBI and police film archival footage and rare photographs this story traces the life of Al ...

Walter R. Walsh was so skilled with a pistol, it was said, that men trusted him to shoot cigarettes from their mouths. He had grown up playing target-practice with clothespins on his aunt's laundry ...