At a time when circuses and exhibitions reigned supreme, offering people a glimpse into the exotic and the unknown, London was visited by...

In 1969, a man who looked like he'd wandered off the set of Sinbad the Sailor sold everything he owned, sailed his family from Oahu to Kauai, and bailed thirteen strangers out of jail on a whim. Within a few years, the beach he handed them had grown into a treehouse village of over a hundred people, with its own church, its own free grocery store, and exactly one law. It lasted eight years before the state burned it to the ground. A Modernist Dream House That Never Got Built

Frances Louisa Clayton, also known as Frances Clalin, emerges as a compelling figure in American history, though her narrative remains...