The best billiard balls once came exclusively from the tusks of Asian elephants. No natural material other than elephant ivory had the physical size, strength, and beauty to perform in the billiard ...

The presidential election in 1896, a contest between the Republican candidate, William McKinley (1843-1901), and the Democrat candidate, William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925), was contested over McKinley ...

African Americans turned to the courts to help protect their constitutional rights. But the courts challenged earlier civil rights legislation and handed down a series of decisions that permitted ...

At the dawn of the twentieth century, many people believed that the automobile offered great potential as a practical means of transportation. Once expensive toys, automobiles were becoming faster and ...

"Electricity is a modern necessity of life." (Franklin Roosevelt, at Rural Electrification Administration celebration, 1938) Edison's statement indicated his pleasure upon opening the Pearl Street ...

Jacket of army wool dyed a distinctive green color. Green wool forage cap with leather trim. Frock coat of green wool with brass buttons were later replaced with hard, black rubber buttons to prevent ...

Tracking the Buffalo was an educational website produced by the National Museum of American History. The interactive site was designed for students in grades 3-6 to explore the relationship between ...

Collections Women Mathematicians and NMAH Collections Olive C. Hazlett: Music and Puzzles Olive C. Hazlett (1890–1974), a leading American mathematician of the 1920s, received this wooden tenor ...