Try to trace your family back past 1890. Go ahead, pull up one of those ancestry websites. Follow your grandmother’s line, then her…
I wasn’t researching census records when I found it. I was trying to verify immigration patterns from the late 1800s, cross-referencing naturalization documents…
There is a door in the Palazzo Ducal in Venice that is 4 m tall. The room it leads interseats perhaps 30 people…
Look down the next time you walk past a building that went up before 1930. If the sidewalk is old enough, and if…
There is a door in the basement of the Palazzo de la Rajon in Padua, Italy that has been bricked over since 1420.…
There is a doorway in a farmhouse in rural Burgundy, France that has stood since 1423. It is 4′ 11 in tall. The…
The year was 1940 and the memory of the first world war still hung over Europe like a toxic fog. Every general and…
At 1000 hours on August 7th, 1942, a flight of B17 flying fortresses from the 19th Bombardment Group approached a Japanese naval convoy…
The sky over the Netherlands was a cold and pale blue on the afternoon of October 7th, 1944. Lieutenant Urban Drew, a 20-year-old…
The waves in the North Pacific were 30 ft high. They crashed over the flight deck of the USS Hornet, soaking the aircraft…