One may picture the infamous and bloody Western Italian Front trenches while picturing the First World War. Or possibly the legendary dogfights conducted between daring pilots in flimsy planes when aviation was just getting started. However, due to the war’s global scope, fighting took place on a large scale anywhere from the Middle East’s sweltering … Read more
Holocaust: A new Ken Burns documentary examines the U.S.’s convoluted and terrible response to Nazism and Jewish immigrants.
December 15, 1836, United States Patents had been reduced to ash. This included approximately 10,000 United States patents in total, which represented every invention that had been registered with the government since 1790.
Kostya Kennedy’s biography of Jackie Robinson, one of baseball’s and America’s most important figures, The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson, is incisive, extensively detailed, and distinctive. Read a sample below. The NAACP began giving the Spingarn Medal in 1915, its sixth year. The medal was created by J. E. Spingarn, then chairman of the NAACP … Read more
For more than two centuries, the United States Postal Service (USPS) has been the primary method of sending point-to-point messages for more over 2 centuries
History of California’s inmate firefighting: Since WWII, California has relied on inmates to combat fires. Prisoners must meet security criteria and undergo two weeks of training to enter the Conservation Camp Program.
It was in Richmond, Virginia, one hundred years ago that the Edgar Allan Poe Museum was established. Poe’s pocket watch, which he wore while writing his short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” just before he moved to New York City, where he spent his final years, was given as a gift to the museum in honor … Read more
Fort Wadsworth is a oldest military installations in the USA. It encompassed 226 acres on the northeastern side of Staten Island, on the Narrows of New York Harbor, was fortified by the British in 1779, and was the most significant defensive position for the rest of the Revolutionary War. Since roughly the time of World … Read more
The former Balbin Brothers Cigar Factory in West Tampa was built in 1904 for Samuel I. Davis & Company as a three-story brick Romanesque Revival edifice. Before moving to Tampa, Samuel and Fred Davis were two of the most prominent cigar producers in New York. This 34,903-square-foot building was constructed in 1904 at 1202 N … Read more
The Little Bighorn battle, which resulted in the deaths of George Armstrong Custer and a large portion of his 7th Cavalry command, occurred on June 25, 1876. The reason this resonates with me—aside from the obvious fact that I’m a fan of American history—is because I’ve been working on a limited series called Crazy Horse … Read more