The altimeter reads 3,000 ft. The air speed indicator hovers at 300 mph. Inside the cockpit, the temperature is freezing, but the pilot…
The date is April 18th, 1943. 700 hours. The heat on the runway at Guadal Canal is already rising. 16 engines cough into…
The jungle on the island of Luzon was screaming. It was February 1945. The heat was suffocating. Private First Class James Miller of…
The water of the Huan Gulf was calm on the morning of March 3rd, 1943. From the deck of the Japanese destroyer Shiryuki,…
In 1194, the town of Shach, France, caught fire. Most of the city burned. The cathedral was thought to be lost. But when…
In 1958, 12 nations signed a treaty that made one continent permanently off limits to private citizens. Not restricted, not regulated, offlimits. You…
I wasn’t looking for a frequency when I started this. I was researching the industrial reforms of the mid 1800s, specifically the wave…
There is a photograph taken in Chicago in the summer of 1893. A woman in a white dress stands in front of a…
There is a photograph in the archives of the Library of Congress that has no explanation. It was taken sometime between 1860 and…
There is a database maintained by the Kansas State Historical Society that lists every recorded orphan train stop in the state between 1866…