Flip Side Of History

What would you do with all the historical facts and tales left out of history textbooks? From the host of the popular Useless Information podcast, Steve Silverman, comes a collection of fun history facts, strange news, and lost stories. In The Flip Side of History: Fascinating True Stories that Time Has Long Forgotten, you can read about common folk and not-so-common knowledge. In this collection of over 30 historical events, Steve Silverman provides fascinating stories and easy to read facts. Covering a wide variety of topics, these stories highlight the quirks, complexities, and curiousness of man. This book gives you tales full of strange news, trivia, and facts, which include an amazing story of the only person rescued from slavery by the Underground Railroad four times, and a time when a man in the 1950s stole hundreds of women’s shoes in Coronado and San Diego, California.