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40 years ago, a tangle of chaotic events led to the death of Hitler, the surrender of the Nazis, and the end of World War II in Europe.

The 20s and 30s saw a host of new ways to separate customers from their money. Those methods have not been forgotten.

Magnificently impractical and obsolete almost as soon as they were built, the cable lines briefly dominated urban transportation throughout the country.

It was a hundred years ago, and the game has changed a good deal since then. But there are plenty of people who still insist that cranky old Hoss Radbourn was the finest pitcher ever.

Walden is here, of course; but so too is Fanny Farmer’s first cookbook.

While a whole generation of artists sought inspiration in the wilderness, George Inness was painting the fields and farms of a man-made countryside.

One of the country’ more bizzarre labor disputes pitted a crowed of outraged newsboys against two powerful opponents: Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolf Hearst.