Horatio Alger, his rags-to-riches message in popular bloom, had died the year before. Stephen Crane, who had seen more of the rags than the riches and had written Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, was ...

Step back in time and experience the first years of the 20th century like never before. These 20 colorized photos from 1900 to 1904 bring history to life, turning old black and white images into vivid ...

A woman in a dress and boots sits on the sand beside a man in a “Swimming Instructor” tank top and shorts, relaxing at the beach. Other people walk nearby along the shoreline. The image is in black ...

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Bienville Square, after the West Indies Hurricane of 1906. (Courtesy of the Helen Depuy Postcard Collection, University of South Alabama Archives) n Monday, Sept. 24, 1906, a meteor was seen above ...