By Peter Carlson, Author at HistoryNet

Counterculture San Francisco Found Sympathy for the Devil in Occultist Anton Szandor LaVey

by By Peter Carlson2/20/202110/29/2021

A shaved-pated eccentric with eyes like Rasputin’s, Anton Szandor LaVey formed a devil-worshiping church and made a bundle fleecing the gullible

H.L. Mencken’s Cynical Commentary Made Americans Laugh—Little Did They Know

by By Peter Carlson11/23/202012/2/2020

Benny and the Bets

by By Peter Carlson9/15/20209/15/2020

Norton I, America’s First Emperor: Fraud or Genius?

by By Peter Carlson8/18/20208/20/2020

How Oscar Wilde Captured America’s Fancy

by By Peter Carlson8/17/20208/25/2020

Roy Cohn: The Toughest, Meanest, Most Brilliant Lawyer in New York

by By Peter Carlson3/19/20204/21/2020