The Bund
A 60-foot likeness of George Washington hung from the rafters at Madison Square Garden on the night of February 20, 1939. Also hanging from the rafters on either side of Washington were four 60-foot...
View ArticleThe World of Tomorrow in a World Gone Mad
On April 28, 1939, Adolf Hitler stood on the podium of the German Reichstag. In front of Hitler sat his Nazi sycophants; behind and above the German dictator sat the party leaders. Hitler told the...
View ArticleThe Peacetime Draft Comes to America
On May 8, 1940, a small group of middle-aged men representing the Executive Committee of the Second Corps Area, Military Training Camps Association(MTCA) met in New York City to plan their...
View ArticleThe Bonus March
The commanding general believed the situation was well in hand; he would continue his advance towards the river and save his nation from disaster. But the President of the United States perceived the...
View ArticleThe Lindberghs’ Summer Excursion Part 2
Charles Lindbergh flew the seaplane Sirius through the Arctic fog, while Anne Lindbergh sat behind him with her head down listening on her earphones for good weather news from Point Barrow. All she...
View ArticleThe Lindberghs’ Summer Excursion Part 1
By 1931 Charles Lindbergh had acquired the aura of the world’s greatest aviator and hero. He had also acquired a young wife, and one year-old baby. Yet he longed for an adventure, one that would...
View ArticleWar Hysteria
A man on horseback galloping through the streets of an American city shouting warnings of the approaching enemy — Boston 1775? No, Seattle 1941. Rather than redcoats, the fear was Japanese bombers. The...
View ArticleSunday Evening at the Movies
Imagine a heat wave — one of the worst in American history. We are back in the torrid summer of 1934, the third weekend in July. The temperature in New York City cracks the 90 degree mark with matching...
View ArticleAmerica’s First Winter Olympics
Fear and apprehension gripped the officials at Lake Placid, New York, on the afternoon of February 4, 1932. Even New York’s governor, although grinning broadly, probably had a few reservations. Why had...
View ArticleWartime Baseball
On a cold January day six weeks after Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt answered a letter from baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis concerning baseball’s survival during...
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