1900s
Iconic Photos Captured Way More Than Expected
December 16, 2022
These moments from history deserve a closer look...and nothing brings out the true life of these moments in time than color. So we hand picked a collection of once black and w...
Iconic Photos Captured Way More Than Expected
December 16, 2022
These moments from history deserve a closer look...and nothing brings out the true life of these moments in time than color. So we hand picked a collection of once black and w...
Mickey Finn, The Bartender Who First "Slipped a Mickey"
November 25, 2022
(Mark Jay Goebel/Getty Images) You might have heard the name Mickey Finn, but you probably didn't realize he was a person. It's a name synonymous with drugging d...
Extremely Dangerous Jobs of the 20th Century
November 24, 2022
Have you heard the phrase “it’s a dirty job but somebody’s got to do it?” That could apply any of the dangerous and death defying jobs from the 20th century that we’ve cat...
Extremely Dangerous Jobs of the 20th Century
November 24, 2022
Have you heard the phrase “it’s a dirty job but somebody’s got to do it?” That could apply any of the dangerous and death defying jobs from the 20th century that we’ve cat...
39 Striking Vintage Thanksgiving Photos From The Past Century
November 24, 2022
Every photo in this article is a snapshot of a time when everything was a little bit more simple, at least on the outside. A time that people can look bac...
Harry Houdini: Stories, Myths, And Facts About Magic's Godfather
November 23, 2022
Harry Houdini may have passed away in 1936, but he remains the most well-known magician and escape artist of the 20th century. He was the scourge of false m...
Shocking Photos of Past Generations Show How Different Life Is Today
November 21, 2022
Some economists claim that it’s the best time to be alive. People have access to everything they want and happiness comes at the push of a button, or mo...
The Iroquois Theatre Fire: America's Deadliest Fire
November 11, 2022
Ruins of Iroquois Theatre. (Bettmann/Getty Images) Although more people were killed in the collapse of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, the deadliest single-bu...
Who Was T.E. Lawrence, A.K.A. Lawrence Of Arabia?
July 13, 2022
Thomas Edward Lawrence, 1927. (Bettmann/Getty Images) Thomas Edward Lawrence was born on August 16, 1888 in North Wales as the illegitimate son of Sir Thomas Chapman. ...
The Eccles Mine Disaster
April 28, 2022
West Virginia coal miners, 1908. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) On the morning of April 28, 1914, dozens of local men and teens left their homes to go to w...
Victor/Victoria: Arkansas's Humble Country Doctor Was Hiding A Shocking Secret
April 16, 2022
Things were different in the early 1900s. Sure, women were marching in the streets, demanding the right to vote, but they still had a lon...
Who Got There First? Peary, Cook, And The Search For The North Pole
April 6, 2022
1909: Robert Peary's fellow discoverers dressed in furs and holding flags at the North Pole. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) It has long been debated w...
Essential Facts About F.D.R.
March 13, 2022
Portrait of American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) as he sits behind the wheel of his car outside of his home in Hyde Park, New York, mid 1930s. (FPG/Getty Images) He Was...
Who Was Frida Kahlo?
March 7, 2022
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907–1954), wearing a folk costume and flowers in her hair, leans her head on her hand while lying in a hammock, c. 1950. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) She Wanted To Be...
November 21, 1902: The First Night Football Game
November 23, 2021
The Philadelphia Athletics of the 1902 National Football League. (Unknown author/Wikimedia Commons) Before the National Football League formed in 1920, American footbal...
1904: King C. Gillette Patents The Gillette Razor Blade
November 11, 2021
Gillette razor and packaging, circa 1930s. (IgniteSMA/Wikimedia Commons) King C. Gillette's parents must have had high hopes when they named him, and fortunately...
