In July of 1909, 750 African-American men known as Buffalo soldiers arrived at Fort Ethan Allen in Colchester, Vt., near the small...
Opera houses didn’t become a feature of American cities and towns until after the Civil War, though they existed before the American...
In 1906, many white Americans believed black Americans didn’t do well at sports. An African-American physical education teacher named Edwin Henderson would...
Mintonette, the game eventually called volleyball, was the brainchild of a man who happened to be friends with the man who invented...
A tomato-hating politician from Rockland set off the Maine clam chowder war of 1939 when he drafted a bill to criminalize clam...
If it weren’t for a bad case of cabin fever, basketball history would never have been made. Nor, for that matter, would...