IN a dozen years we have seen a marked change in our understanding of the war, only the least of which is attributable to fiction. With the publication of our archive material, with the summing up of ...

Workers repair the brick pavement on Seventh Avenue in Marion in September 1914. (The History Center) Buy Photo This photo from The History Center collection shows workers repairing the brick pavement ...

And you thought Louis Menand’s “The Free World” was long! Simon Heffer’s “The Age of Decadence: A History of Britain, 1880-1914” clocks in at 897 printed pages with narrow margins. It’s a book that ...

Learn about the history of the 1914 Cracker Jack Shoeless Joe Jackson card, its connection to the Black Sox scandal, Field of ...

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a bookish professor of rhetoric at Bowdoin College in Maine who became the Union's most celebrated combat hero of the Civil War, died on this day in history, Feb. 24, 1914 ...

George Sweeney, 28, died in the early morning hours of July 15, 1914, in a gunfight near the corner of Texas and Travis. Earlier, in a saloon on Main Street, W.A. Bridges and Edgar Perry, Sweeney's ...

A fire broke out at the Elmira Masonic Temple (now the Hazlett building) on March 23, 1914, likely caused by a grease fire in the New England Kitchen's ventilation system. The fire significantly ...