Committee on Public Information poster from 1917 promoting the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. W. D. Stevens/Library of Congress. In 1917, on the brink of the U.S. entry into ...
Americans spent their money on cars, televisions and other modern appliance, Library of Congress At the end of World War II, American soldiers returned home to a country quite different from the one ...
In post Civil War Missouri Jesse James built his reputation as a ruthless outlaw. Yet many sympathized with the notorious bandit, because they shared his pro-Confederate sentiments. James was ...
In the spring of 1977, the doors of 254 West 54th Street opened to a New York City nightclub that in its glamour and pageantry defined the disco era. Studio 54 was situated in a former opera house and ...
Susanna on the way to Casa Susanna, Catskills, New York, Art Gallery of Ontario © AGO In the 1960s, a group of cross-dressing men and transgender women spent ...
Children ride the “Mad Hatter's Tea Party” attraction on Disneyland’s opening day in Anaheim, California, July 17, 1955. Photo credit: Loomis Dean/The Life Picture Collection via Shutterstock When ...
Just prior to leading Allied troops in an invasion of North Africa in 1942, General Dwight Eisenhower made an astute observation about the nature of leadership. He wrote, "I firmly determined that my ...
Norma McCorvey, Jane Roe in the 1973 court case, left, and her attorney Gloria Allred hold hands as they leave the Supreme Court building in Washington, DC. April 26, 1989. Mark Reinstein / Alamy By ...
A giant game of world hackysack, anyone? Participants at a summer solstice celebration in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park keep a large ball, painted to represent a globe, in the air, June 21, 1967.
On May 4th, 1886, a rally of anarchists and labor activists in Chicago's Haymarket Square turned deadly. An unknown assailant tossed a bomb into a throng of riot police, killing one instantly. In the ...
Cover illustration shows mine worker firing a gun after his wife and children were killed in a massacre at their tent camp by the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards.
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