Discover how a lengthy drought and unique weather patterns leveled nine Maine towns and changed the history of fire management forever.
The Sacco & Vanzetti case (1920-1927), the world-famous trial of two Italian-born anarchists, divided America and exposed injustice in the country’s justice system.
Medicine on America’s frontier was a challenge involving unqualified practitioners, snake oil, and rampant disease.
The Blue Fugates of Kentucky (1820-1975) were an Appalachian family whose skin turned blue due to hereditary methemoglobinemia caused by an enzyme deficiency.
Would Germany’s inability to pay reparations after WWI lead to another war? Luckily, an American diplomat devised the Dawes Plan to temporarily ease tensions.
For decades after his execution in 1885, Louis Riel was a controversial figure in Canada.
In 1932, the US Army employed tanks and tear gas against its own WWI veterans. Here is how the Bonus Army changed civil-military relations in the United States.
Among the notorious criminals of the Wild West was a woman who made a living as an outlaw and robbed a stagecoach.
