History Chapters

The Story of Us - from the beginning of time to the present - is usually written by "the victors." True-to-life events, however, must include opposing points of view. This collection features stories about people, places and events which go beyond "the already known and obvious."

An envelope emblem is Albert Fish's downfall, for it leads police to his boarding house for his arrest.

After the surrender of Bataan, the Japanese force soldiers on a death march.

As lawyers for both sides fought, the case grew. Eventually 648 plaintiffs joined the lawsuit. (That did not account for all the people who had lived ...

648 plaintiffs join the lawsuit; add a claim to cover people who get sick in the future, and the lawsuit goes to trial.

Dickie Eklund becomes a promising boxer from the depressed city of Lowell, Massachusetts.

Leopold and Loeb lure Bobby Franks into a rental car where Loeb allegedly kills the young boy with a chisel.

The Supreme Court gets its own kind of veto power after Chief Justice Marshall's opinion in Marbury v Madison..

C.S. Lewis sets the Chronicles of Narnia in his beloved County Down, in Northern Ireland.

During the 1930s circuses thrive, look at old circus posters.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the first major civil rights law since Reconstruction

Baseball's first "Colored World Series" takes place in October of 1924. Why did this happen?

PG&E has a compressor station in Hinkley (in theMojave Desert), which puts large amounts of toxins into the water, soil, and air.

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