(Slate) ... The stories of Ruth’s home runs overshadowed a curious development on the team. During their time in Hot Springs, two of his te...

(LoC) On August 27, 1900, U.S. Army physician James Carroll allowed an infected mosquito to feed on him in an attempt to isolate the me...

York, PA (YDR) Most people don't believe Don Slaugh had polio. He contracted the infectious disease in the summer of 1941, along ...

(Aegis) Minute amounts of a World War I blister agent were found at an Aberdeen Proving Ground demolition site after a pipe was broken ...

(boingboing) An editorial in the 200th anniversary issue of the New England Journal of Medicine looks at mortality and health through t...

(LoC) Emma Goldman, American anarchist and feminist, compelling advocate of free speech, the eight-hour work day , and birth control, was ar...

(NYTimes) During the opening months of the Civil War, the streets of Richmond, Va., filled with bloodied bodies. The thousands of Confederat...

(Historynet) ... With winter approaching there would be no harvest, and with 700 bodies buried in the despoiled fields, planting was out of ...

(Cigar Aficionado) How do you celebrate the season premiere of a television show centered on the Prohibition era? By taking a drink, of cour...

(American Heritage) In 1965, after winning in a landslide against Barry Goldwater and helping to carry Democratic supermajorities into both ...

(WoCCP) The Cecil County Potter’s Field, the final resting place for paupers who couldn’t afford a burial, is located across from Mt. Aviat ...

Author Daniel Okrent describes how wealthy people managed to evade Prohibition in this episode of Slate V's Bookmark. Link

(History's Women) Anna Marie Jarvis was born in Webster, West Virginia on May 1, 1864. According to historical records, at an early ...

(Wired) The 1889 Russian flu pandemic circled the globe in just four months, captivating the world, despite the lack of airplanes or hyperve...

(LoC) Frederick Law Olmsted, nineteenth-century America's foremost landscape architect, was born on April 26, 1822. Son of a well-to-do ...

(NYTimes) Whooping cough has been a well-known disease for hundreds of years, and the term “pertussis” has been in use since the 18th centur...