America’s First Winter Olympics
Fear and apprehension gripped the officials at Lake Placid, New York, on the afternoon of February 4, 1932. Even New York’s governor, although grinning...
Sunday Evening at the Movies
Imagine a heat wave — one of the worst in American history. We are back in the torrid summer of 1934, the third weekend...
War Hysteria
A man on horseback galloping through the streets of an American city shouting warnings of the approaching enemy — Boston 1775? No, Seattle 1941....
The Lindberghs’ Summer Excursion Part 1
By 1931 Charles Lindbergh had acquired the aura of the world’s greatest aviator and hero. He had also acquired a young wife, and one...
The Lindberghs’ Summer Excursion Part 2
Charles Lindbergh flew the seaplane Sirius through the Arctic fog, while Anne Lindbergh sat behind him with her head down listening on her earphones...
The Bonus March
The commanding general believed the situation was well in hand; he would continue his advance towards the river and save his nation from disaster....
The Peacetime Draft Comes to America
On May 8, 1940, a small group of middle-aged men representing the Executive Committee of the Second Corps Area, Military Training Camps Association(MTCA) met...
The World of Tomorrow in a World Gone Mad
On April 28, 1939, Adolf Hitler stood on the podium of the German Reichstag. In front of Hitler sat his Nazi sycophants; behind and...
The Bund
A 60-foot likeness of George Washington hung from the rafters at Madison Square Garden on the night of February 20, 1939. Also hanging from...
POW Exposition
Lieutenant Colonel Ross Greening and his fellow ex-prisoners of war were crushed. They had collected 56 crates of American ingenuity–POW handicraft–while waiting at their...