Historical Planet

Like the Greek historian Thucydides and the American historian Francis Parkman, Samuel Eliot Morison writes his books as much as possible ...

The main shopping district of Jackson Heights. The apartment house at the right, erected in 1914, was the first garden-apartment building b...

Maurice’s Woods was the name given by Maspeth old-timers to a 72-acre forested tract bounded by what was to become Maurice Avenue, 66th St...

Johannes Hevelius published the first detailed map of the surface of the Moon in 1647. He was born on 28 January 1611 in Danzig (Gdansk), ...

the first German Emperor from 18 January 1871 to his death in 1888, the first Head of State of a united Germany.  Perhaps, but a mustach...

TBD Devastators on the deck of the USS Enterprise. 1942. 

Corporal Louis B. Swingle standing in front of a wall map, between two ladders, in the United States 8th Air Force headquarters operatio...

Willi Hübner was a 16-year-old boy who served as a messenger in the Führer Grenadier Division and was awarded the Iron Cross for bravery un...

Civil War veteran poses with a fighter jet, 1955 - “Uncle Bill” Lundy claimed to be the last living Confederate Civil War veteran in Flori...

Statue of David by Michelangelo, encased in bricks to prevent damage from bombs, during world war 2

An "inventor's inventor," whose hundreds of patents underlie much of our modern technology. John Hays Hammond, Jr., lives ...