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The Battle of Midway represented a significant blow to the Imperial Japanese Navy, and a measure of revenge for the United States, in the sinking of four aircraft carriers. But there was an ancillary story that is not nearly as well known.
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.”
On December 15, 1836 the entire record of the nation's efforts to spur innovation via patent protection, records of some of the earliest and most important inventions of the young nation, were lost.
Three classic episodes of The History Guy about how the Christmas season survives even tragedy.
The “Great Sedition Trial” uncovered shocking connections at the time with the German reich that we were fighting, and challenged the idea that the nation was of a single mind during the war. It also challenged exactly how far the national commitment to freedom of speech and opinion reached, especially in extraordinary times.
