There was a time in the United States when knowing what time it is, was very confusing. In the 1800s, every town had their own time, it could be 10:05 in one town and 10:20 just down the road. It took until the mid 1960s before the country had a standardized time. Here is that history of how we finally all knew what time it was.
It is hard to believe and somewhat sad that the US Space Shuttle Program is down to its final few flights. The space shuttle has been flying for 29 years now and has flown 131 missions is now winding down. Here is a look back at the history of the US Space Shuttle Program.
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan is a fascinating history of how conservation, our National Parks and the US Forest Service came to be, and almost never made it because of politics and the worst forest fire in US history.
It is hard to believe that it has been 40 years since man first landed on the moon in Apollo 11. Like most people my age, I can remember exactly where I was when I watched the first moon landing. Here is the history of the Apollo program and how the US got to the moon first.
The Dust Bowl was
caused by several different factors that all seemed to come together at the
same time. The reasons for this disaster didn’t just happen overnight, it was a
culmination of economic, farming and weather occurrences. The Dust Bowl
coincided with the Great Depression, making the hardships even worse for those
that lived through it. 
