White hot dogs are often encountered in western New York. But how did it get its start about a century ago and why is it ...

By 1920, of all the major immigrant groups in Lowell ... One result was series of federal immigration laws culminating in the most restrictive bill in the nation’s history, which Congress passed in ...

Anne said It’s amazing how much history Minden has and what’s been ... house ad that Anne found in a Minden newspaper from the 1920s was right. And those desiring to understand what it was ...

Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War ...

The British Broadcasting Company, as the BBC was originally called, was formed on 18 October 1922 by a group of leading wireless manufacturers including Marconi. Daily broadcasting by the BBC ...

In her memoir titled Childhood Memories of 1920s Hong Kong ... Hong Kong's hidden history makers: The Nepalese gurkhas “Canton was hell to us! We were in a hail of bullets,” Dou says ...

The US economy in the 1920s - OCR A The Depression and its effects - OCR A Roosevelt and the New Deal - OCR A The mobilisation of the US people during World War Two - OCR A The impact of World War ...

has got me looking backward too—and for this week I’ve chosen one of the oldest Secret History subjects yet. Jimmy Bertrand, described as “the leading black show drummer in 1920s Chicago ...

With a pro-business Republican Party in government throughout the 1920s, business owners profited from the boom. Men such as Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller and Henry Ford were instantly ...