Symbolically, Dresden ended what began in Coventry. Early 1945 was getting towards the end of World War II. The Russians…
The disaster got its name from a front-page photograph of Emmett Kelly carried by the Hartford Courant. Kelly was the…
The only entrance to the Cocoanut Grove was the revolving front door. Other exits had been bricked or welded shut…
The Blitz was not a single event. It was a World War II ordeal by fire and bombing that lasted…
The Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal was nearly full for the Sunday matinee. The audience of 800 consisted mainly…
If any single incident could provide a manifesto for the existence of labor unions, it is the horrific fire that…
The Iroquois Theater was bang up-to-date. Designed like a Paris opera house with a 19m (60 ft) high marble-walled lobby…
Even today visitors to Boston can feel the waft of the city’s once evident superiority complex. In the 1870s it…
Chicago was born in a hurry to grow up, from a hamlet of 150 people in 1831 to a haphazard…
Mobile, Alabama had been a frontier town in French, British and Spanish hands before it became irrevocably American in 1813.…