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Crecy, Agincourt, Blenheim, Trafalgar, Waterloo, El Alamein - the names trip off the tongue and resound through our history. Great British military victories, often won against the …
In the beginning of the twentieth century, the Connecticut River Valley was a thriving manufacturing hub for fabric, arms and brass. But early in the spring of 1936, nearly two …
Beneath the churning surface of Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary rest the bones of shipwrecks and sailors alike. Massachusetts' ports connected its citizens to the world, …
Author Janis Thornton reveals the stories of a day in Indiana like no other.Palm Sunday 1965 started as the nicest day of the year, the kind of weather that encouraged Hoosiers to …
In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato …
With more than one thousand books on Hurricane Katrina, somehow not one work examines a collection of Crescent City calamity--until now. Here seven tragedies and their fallout are …
Journey to the coast with Michael Morgan as he looks back at the area's most deadly storms.Coastal Delaware, Maryland and Virginia have always been vulnerable to the power of …
For more than five centuries, the waterways surrounding Long Island have profoundly shaped its history.Familiar subjects of lighthouses, shipwrecks and whaling are found alongside …
A fire of frightening magnitude was not a question of "e;if"e; but "e;when"e; in young Prescott, and on July 14, 1900, the feared conflagration found its spark. …
During the nineteenth century, more than three hundred boats met their end in the steamboat graveyard that was the Lower Missouri River, from Omaha to its mouth. Although derided …