Imagine a world without electric lights. Then thank Thomas Edison for his "Electric-Lamp" U.S. Patent #223898, granted on 27 January 1880... (Read More)
Melissa Berry continues exploring an overlooked aspect of Puritan life in the 17th century Massachusetts Bay Colony: paternity and child support cases... (Read More)
Melissa Davenport Berry continues exploring an aspect of Puritan life in the 17th century that is often overlooked: paternity and child support cases... (Read More)
An article about the inauguration of John Kennedy as the nation’s 35th president on 20 January 1961; the youngest elected president in American history... (Read More)
An article about the Int. Olympic Committee returning Jim Thorpe’s 1912 Olympic gold medals to his family 70 years after unjustly taking them from him... (Read More)
An article (with a complete title list) about the 247 Tennessee newspapers available in GenealogyBank’s online Historical Newspaper Archives... (Read More)