Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, the Long Count, million-dollar gates, and how the 1920s transformed prizefighting into America's biggest sport.

Hello lovelies, I have a new series on my channel where I talk about the history of fashion. Today I will be discussing the history of 1920s fashion. I have always loved the 1920s because it is so ...

The 1920s, often called the “Roaring Twenties,” were a time of major change and excitement. After World War I, people were ready to let loose and enjoy life, and it showed in everything from fashion ...

Private automobile ownership exploded in the 1920s. In 1919, there were about 6.5 million passenger cars in America. By 1929 that number had increased to over 23 million and American society was ...

Looking at history we often conjure up an idealized view of the past or one that is scornful and appalled at the poor conditions of the time. One hundred years ago in Quincy, people were coping with ...

Who knew that these little window canopies were all the rage in Bed Stuy back in the 1920s? (This shot is from Herkimer Street.) We certainly didn’t. One occasionally sees metal versions of these over ...

What was life in Louisville like a century ago? During the 1920s in The Derby City, Louisvillians saw women gain the right to vote, the dawn of the Jazz Age and prohibition — the last seeming ...

Beginning in the 1890s, Portuguese, primarily from the Azores, settled in Back Central’s tenements and multi-family dwellings. By the early 1920s, over 2,200 Portuguese immigrants and their children ...

Britain's Winston Churchill, (then Lord of the Admiralty and later World War II prime minister), France's World War I Field Marshall Ferdinand Foch, and U.S. President Woodrow Wilson were all ...