The presidential election in 1896, a contest between the Republican candidate, William McKinley (1843-1901), and the Democrat candidate, William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925), was contested over McKinley ...

The ocean liner Leviathan was one of the largest and most popularly recognizable passenger ships on the Atlantic in the 1920s. Like all ocean liners, the ship was at once a complex and powerful ...

At the dawn of the twentieth century, many people believed that the automobile offered great potential as a practical means of transportation. Once expensive toys, automobiles were becoming faster and ...

Nineteenth-century Plains Indian drawings have often been called “ledger” drawings because they were made with pencil, ink, and watercolor on pages of old ledger or account books. When young Plains ...

"Electricity is a modern necessity of life." (Franklin Roosevelt, at Rural Electrification Administration celebration, 1938) Edison's statement indicated his pleasure upon opening the Pearl Street ...

"I remember this circumstance very well because of the excitement and surprise and incredulity which he manifested at the time. He asked me over and over again what it was." (William D. Coolidge, ...

Collections Women Mathematicians and NMAH Collections Olive C. Hazlett: Music and Puzzles Olive C. Hazlett (1890–1974), a leading American mathematician of the 1920s, received this wooden tenor ...