The Kodak being a new kind of portable camera that eliminated the need for lens and shutter adjustments.
Constantly keep in mind that whatever has happened
Within the fair’s buildings visitors encountered devices and concepts new to them and to the world. They heard live music played by an orchestra in New York and transmitted to the fair by long-distanc...
We must keep in mind, I believe, that when Hitler says anything he for the moment convinces himself that it is true. He is basically sincere; but he is at the same time a fanatic.
The fair alone consumed three times as much electricity as the entire city of Chicago.
Such peaceful intervals never lasted long.
Room 40 had long followed Kptlt. Walther Schwieger’s U-20 and kept a running record of his patrols: when he left, which route he took, where he was headed, and what he was supposed to do once he got t...
Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell in love with the city, the people I encountered, and above all the lake and...
On Monday, May 10, the coroner’s jury issued its finding: that the submarine’s officers and crew and the emperor of Germany had committed willful and wholesale murder. Half an hour later a message arr...
On February 16, 1943, at 6:00 p.m., she was executed by guillotine. Her last words: And I have loved Germany so.
No one wanted the job. What had seemed one of the least challenging tasks facing Franklin D. Roosevelt as newly elected president had, by June 1933, become one of the most intransigent. As ambas-sador...
No one had forgotten how in 1885 fouled water had ignited an outbreak of cholera and typhoid that killed ten percent of the city’s population.
Mrs. Caillaux bought a gun, practiced with it at the gunsmith’s shop, then went to the editor’s office and fired six times. In her testimony, offering an unintended metaphor for what was soon to befal...
Mrs. Arthur Luck of Worcester, Massachusetts, traveling with her two sons, Kenneth Luck and Elbridge Luck, ages eight and nine, to rejoin her husband, a mining engineer who awaited them in England. Wh...
Look here, old fellow, do you realize this has been the greatest meeting of artists since the fifteenth century?
Later, Dodd wrote a description of Hitler in his diary. He is romantic-minded and half-informed about great historical events and men in Germany. He had a semi-criminal record. He has definitely said...
It was conceived out of hubris and anxiety, at a time—1903—when Britain feared it was losing the race for dominance of the passenger-ship industry.
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost. —DANTE ALIGHIERI, The Divine Comedy: Canto I
In the end, Dodd proved to be exactly what Roosevelt had wanted, a lone beacon of American freedom and hope in a land of gathering darkness.
In his memoir-like history The World Crisis, 1916–1918, he said of Wilson, What he did in April, 1917, could have been done in May, 1915. And if done then what abridgment of the slaughter; what sparin...