So, I was excited when pulling into Tupelo, Mississippi, because the signs were everywhere, “Welcome to the Birthplace of Elvis Presley.”

You will be staggered by some of the perverse devices “professionals” used to treat people.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s gaslighting was perfected by wealthy white men who wanted to separate from their wives...

It was a social event that allowed boys to develop confidence and discipline while playing a competitive game. We gathered on the field...

My mother came to dread family radio hour, “There was never any good news, we were losing, it seemed on all fronts!”

Emperor Hirohito and Army Commanding General Tojo had promised the Japanese people an assault on mainland Japan was impossible.

There was disbelief in Washington D.C., too, as President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed war on Japan the day after the attack...

The Disneys were coming back on a train from a bad business trip in New York City where Charles Mintz, Walt’s distributor, basically...

And then there’s the story of President Harry S. Truman’s famous night at Excelsior Spring’s premiere hotel the Elms.

The 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment was recruited by Jim Lane before he had proper authority to do so. Lane asked Washington

Worried about the Army's ability to move men and equipment between military bases, an Army convoy was ordered to travel coast to coast...

The Americans joined the war after President Wilson and Congress concluded now was the right time to step in and assist in saving the Allies

Living in 1783 Paris, the Montgolfier brothers are considered the Yuri Gagarin of ballooning. Their family owned a paper manufacturing...

Not to be deterred, back in Atchison, Amelia, Grace and her favorite uncle secretly built their own roller coaster off the roof of the...

Bastogne was a key engagement in the Battle of the Bulge, the largest on the European front during World War II...

Kaiser William II of Germany, for morale, decided to send hundreds of Tannenbaum trees to his troops who were in deep trenches enduring...

Minor league baseball has some of the great wacky names and mascots: The Hartford Yard Goats, Lansing Lug Nuts, Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimps..

At her talk, “Buried History: Death, Funeral and Burial Customs of the Ozarks,” Kaitlyn took us on a journey through discussion and photos..

That night both sides realized the enormous cost of the day's fighting. The dead and dying still littered the field as medical teams did...

Even in Poland, Irena’s story had remained dormant and forgotten until the girls showed new light from a different generation...