A new book by historian Scott D. Seligman recalls the 'The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906,' when immigrants fought for the ...

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Special tours at the Tenement Museum explore the lives and holiday traditions of the Jews of the Lower East Side. In the fall of 1910, Edward Morgan, the Postmaster General of New York, made an ...

Germany invading the United States might sound crazy by today’s standards, but global power at the turn of the 20th century was very different from what it is today. The great powers of Europe were ...

In 1906, the New York Times ran the headline, “There is life on the planet Mars.” It was based on the work of Percival Lowell, a professor who was convinced Mars contained a series of irrigation ...

Near the start of the 20th century, a strange phenomenon swept the country — "Mars Mania," a public obsession with the idea, pushed by astronomer Percival Lowell, that Mars was home to an intelligent ...

WASHINGTON – On a humid Saturday afternoon in the shadow of the Washington National Cathedral, Esme Ohlsen sat atop a colorful wooden horse and waved to her mother and grandmother as she and a dozen ...

Talk about fake news: In 1907 a New York Times banner headline declared, “There Is Life On the Planet Mars.” Upping the ante the next year, the stodgy Wall Street Journal claimed “proof” of “conscious ...