THG's Year in Review

In 1891, British humorist Jerome K. Jerome wrote that “Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve, they start telling each other ghost stories.”

A Busy Week

The battle fought outside Richmond between May 31 and June 1, 1862 was desperate, confused, and exceptionally bloody, with the fate of the rebellion hanging in the balance.

There is a fear that small towns are dying, losing their young to opportunities in cities. There is some evidence this is true. But there is life in rural America yet.

The allied occupation of Iceland was almost bizarrely cordial, and became even stranger when the neutral state officially requested to be occupied by the United States, at the time also neutral.