Disaster struck Galveston, Texas, on Sept. 8, 1900. The devastating hurricane took thousands of lives, homes and businesses. Before the hurricane, in the late 1800s, Galveston was ranked as the Lone ...

<I>New York Herald</I>, Dec. 30, 1900 -- — Three centuries will be spanned by the lives of more than a score of men and women in the United States, provided these centenarians hear the “All’s well” of ...

Dec. 31, 2000 -- Politician and lawyer William Jennings Bryan thought it was the defense of individual rights. Industrialist Andrew Carnegie thought it was an end to war. But when asked in 1900 about ...

Before the Great Storm of 1900 - which made its Texas landfall 125 years ago Monday - Galveston had become one of the busiest ports in North America with electric streetlights, grand hotels, and ...

We journey across the globe at the dawn of the twentieth century, using colorized and smooth 60-frame restoration to bring ...