How a historic wave of selling on the New York Stock Exchange shattered confidence in America’s economic prosperity, accelerated a financial collapse and became an…
How three American astronauts, flying aboard the first crewed Apollo mission, turned a spacecraft into a television studio and helped restore confidence in NASA’s journey…
How a devastating fire destroyed much of Chicago, left approximately 100,000 people homeless, exposed the vulnerabilities of a rapidly industrializing American city and helped shape…
Gerda Lerner (1920 to 2013) Historical photograph. UW Madison Archives / UW Madison.Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Original image and attribution ↗|Creative Commons CC…
Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, March 1936. Library of Congress, Farm Security Administration Collection. OPEN CHRONICLE ARTS MAGAZINE · PHOTOGRAPHY By Open Chronicle Arts…
OPEN CHRONICLE HISTORY | TODAY IN HISTORY How a presidential declaration transformed the American Civil War into an explicit struggle against slavery and helped reshape…
By Open Chronicle History Desk On September 17, 1787, inside the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, a group of delegates gathered for the final session…
