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The Great Molasses Flood of 1919
On a January afternoon in Boston, a massive steel tank holding over two million gallons of molasses ruptured without warning. A wave of thick, sticky syrup up to 25 feet high surged through the streets at an estimated 35 miles…
The Dust Bowl Migration, Frozen in Photographs
Through the 1930s, a combination of drought and poor farming practices turned huge stretches of the American Great Plains into dry, wind-blown wasteland. Hundreds of thousands of families, unable to farm land that had literally blown away, packed what they…
Hedy Lamarr: Hollywood Star, Secret Inventor
Hedy Lamarr was marketed by 1940s Hollywood as one of the most beautiful women in film — a label that overshadowed one of the more remarkable minds working in the industry at the time. Away from the studio, Lamarr co-developed…
The Dancing Plague of 1518
In the summer of 1518, in the city of Strasbourg, a woman named Frau Troffea stepped into the street and began to dance — and didn’t stop. Within days, dozens of others had joined her, dancing seemingly against their own…
The Titanic’s Last Photographs
A small number of photographs exist showing the Titanic in the final days and hours before it struck the iceberg that sank it — ordinary snapshots that became historically priceless by accident. One passenger, disembarking at an earlier port stop…