A Bolshevik uprising in Berlin, civil war in Russia, the first nonstop transatlantic crossing by air, and daily commutes by zeppelin. These seldom-seen images show some of the events and moments that ...

One of the most important eclipses in history happened in 1919. This particular eclipse cut a path across South America and the Atlantic Ocean, and landed on the west coast of Africa. Waiting on the ...

Struggles for the rights of women, immigrants and black Americans defined the US in a year that holds striking parallels to today. Rioters converge outside the Douglas County Courthouse in Omaha, ...

- The Molasses flood claims 21 lives and injures more than 150 people in Boston. A storage tank burst, gushing more than 2.3 million gallons of molasses that became tarlike, creating a 30-foot wave ...

One hundred years ago this summer, a black teen on a raft crossed an imaginary line into a “white” section of a Lake Michigan beach, was stoned by white bathers and drowned. The interracial battle on ...

July 27, 1919 was a hot day in Chicago. That afternoon, 17-year-old Eugene Williams was swimming at a public beach when he drifted across an invisible color line extending into Lake Michigan. White ...

A short history of one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history when hundreds of African-Americans were murdered and tortured by white racists and security forces after black farm ...

Every student of Irish history is taught that the War of Independence began on January 21st, 1919, with the ambush of a party escorting a cartload of gelignite to Soloheadbeg quarry in Co Tipperary.

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