Greg Daugherty

1925 marked the peak of the Florida land boom. But false advertising and natural disasters thwarted many settlers’ visions of striking it rich.

Horace Greeley ran against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant in November 1872. Twenty-four days later, he died of unknown causes at a private mental health facility.

The Phrygian cap, also known as the liberty cap, emerged as a potent symbol in 18th-century America and France.

The commander in chief's unexpected death in office 100 years ago fueled decades of conspiracy theories but was most likely the result of a heart attack.

Already prone to boiler explosions that regularly killed scores of passengers, steamboats were pushed to their limits in races that valued speed over safety.

Although he 'spoke' German, the vaudevillian canine captured the heart of the nation.

Rosie the Riveter wasn’t the only woman who pitched in on the homefront.