The 1911 Heat Wave cooked most of the Northeastern United States for eleven summer days and nights, with temperatures hitting 105 in some areas. People in sweltering New York tenements were particularly impacted. On one day, roughly 400,000 rushed to Coney Island in hopes of catching ocean breezes.
Inventions and Discoveries of the Industrial Revolution defined today’s world.
Strange nineteenth-century customs, holidays and events echo in today’s world.
Victorian Age fashion pushed forward into greater freedom.
Advances in the Industrial Era spawned secret places, many of which you can still visit.
Nellie Bly and other Victorian Era visionaries blazed trails to your future.
Explore pets, plants and other 19th century natural wonders and people who protected them.
Rival journalists Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland raced around the world in 1889. Facing treacherous…
