CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution officially took hold on Jan. 17, 1920, a victory for the nation’s temperance movement, plunging the nation into Prohibition. The ...

In 1959, NASA posthumously named the Goddard Space Flight Center in honor of Robert Goddard’s lifetime of work in rocketry, physics, and space travel. But his journey from a youth spent reading ...

FORT KNOX, Ky. — It’s said that the journey is often more rewarding than the destination. For one century-old fragment of laminated wood, the journey began while soaring over the wooded landscape of ...

The 1920s were a period of significant social transformation. After WWI, society was ready for something new, and young women began pushing back against the strict expectations that had long defined ...

If he were alive today, John Ashley might be just another street thug. Instead, the tall man with the glass eye became South Florida's most romanticized gangster. Long before Bonnie Parker and Clyde ...

Lion Oil, based in El Dorado, refines and produces oil, gasoline and other oil-based products. Its products include not only fuels and asphalt but also industrial solvents and oil-based roofing ...

People in town adored little Pietro. Everyone seemed to know him; large crowds would gather and toss nickels to him as he busked his way through downtown Pittsfield singing in his “melodious, childish ...

Daniel J. Levesque, 67, of Mesa, passed away Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025. He was born in Phoenix on Dec. 26, 1957, and graduated from Westwood High School. Dan served in the U.S. Navy and was assigned to ...

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In the 1920s, Sarasota was small, Southern and segregated. The Ku Klux Klan’s national resurgence did not pass the town by: In one local parade, residents marched down Main Street in white hoods, ...