ATLANTA — Thursday marks 77 years since over 100 people lost their lives in what remains the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history. On the morning of Dec. 7, 1946, a fire broke out around 3:30 a.m. at ...

The Haitian President, Elie Lescot had been granted the powers of a dictator by his congress and was backed by the United States. He was representative of the mulatto ruling class during a time when ...

Sometimes features sit in our digital library far, far longer than they should. It’s no one’s fault; just the way things work sometimes. Such is the case with this 1946 Willys CJ-2A that currently ...

Ghost rockets, rocket- or missile-shaped unidentified flying objects (UFOs), were first sighted on February 26, 1946, mostly in Sweden and nearby countries. More than 2000 sightings were recorded ...

The Oakland (California) General Strike was an extension of the national strike wave. It was not a 'called' strike. Shortly before 5 a.m., Monday, December 3, 1946, the hundreds of workers passing ...

On May 6, 1946, Life magazine published "Bedlam 1946," an exposé of two state hospitals: Pennsylvania's Byberry and Ohio's Cleveland State. To a country shaken by recent revelations of Nazi atrocities ...