Split image: Left side shows four women in 1940s-style skating outfits roller skating in a city parade, holding a sign that reads “Do Your Bit! Skate to Work Save Gas.” Right side is a black-and-white ...

Many listeners confused the intent of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land.” On the surface, this song is a patriotic ode to America’s ideals. That smokescreen is precisely why this is the perfect ...

Punching Nazis was what superheroes were all about. As bombastic and glamorous as superheroes may be, they come from decidedly humble beginnings. The first generation of caped crusaders—the “Golden ...

THE frost which began on December 27, 1939, and continued with few intermissions until about February 18, 1940, was the most severe in Great Britain since 1895. December 1939 was cold on the whole, ...

Dedicated at the MIT Museum on August 13, 2015, and installed at the former Polaroid Corporation Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Edwin H. Land (1909–1991) was the innovative inventor ...