The History Guy explores the trial of Jonathan Martin for arson at York Minster. It was a sensation at the time, an early test of the meaning of insanity, and deserves to be remembered.
During the civil war, the manufacture of powder and explosives was often handled by the most vulnerable, young women and children, whose labor was needed when so many men had been sent off to war. On March 13, 1863, the confederacy experienced a munitions disaster, in the confederate capitol of Richmond.