SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - President Joe Biden announced his plans to formally designate the site of the 1908 Springfield Race Riot as a national monument using his authority through the Antiquities ...

Although the majority of this footage comes from the 1908 Olympic Games, at least one clip predates the 1908 event. On July 2, 2021, a video started circulating on social media that supposedly showed ...

At last year’s Watches & Wonders show in Geneva, Rolex introduced a brand-new product line called the 1908. A dress watch on a leather strap in yellow gold or white gold with its Perpetual movement ...

The Apache chief Geronimo was still alive, as were the outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, not to mention the former slave Harriet Tubman, and the first nurse, Florence Nightingale, and the ...

This essay has been adapted from a “Spiel” delivered by Mike Pesca on his podcast, The Gist. An edited transcript of the audio recording is below, and you can listen to Pesca’s Spiel by clicking on ...

When the investors in the Henry Ford Company couldn’t get Henry to design and build cars for sale they turned to Detroit’s “Master of Precision,” Henry Leland, in 1902 to appraise the company’s assets ...

A lawsuit brought by an injured fan revealed that an umpire blew an important call in a 1908 baseball game. Few tangible elements remain of the 1908 baseball season: The players who took part in it, ...

Drought conditions continue to affect parts of the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York State. Drought also affected the Adirondacks during the summer and autumn of 1908 which resulted in the ...

The 1908 Olympics were originally awarded to Rome but money that would have been spent on the Games was required elsewhere following the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius. London stepped in to take over ...

The 2016 Chicago Cubs are going to the World Series — for the first time since 1945. The Cubs defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-0 on Saturday night at Wrigley Field to clinch the National League ...

Explore items in the Smithsonian's collections related to the year 1908. Held in trust for the American people, the Smithsonian’s collections document our nation’s shared history, art from across the ...