America Had No Child Labor Law Until 1938 — So Who Was Working in the Mines?

America Had No Food Safety Law Until 1906 — So What Was Really in Your Food?

America Had No Refrigerators Until 1927 — So How Did Anyone Keep Food From Rotting?

America Had No Mail Carriers Until 1863 — So How Did Anyone Get a Letter?

Six Men Were Still Inside When the Airship Flew Away Without Its Crew | Airship Italia, 1928

Eight Lifeboats for 795 People. Then They Hit a Rock No One Could See | SS Norge, 1904

The Navy's Own Experts Said She Would Capsize. She Sailed Anyway | HMS Captain, 1870

Rescue Boats Sat Beside Her For Forty Hours. Not One Person Came Off | SS Princess Sophia, 1918

Seventy Three Men, One Life Raft, No Life Jackets | USS Akron Disaster, 1933

An Admiral Gave an Order Everyone Knew Was Wrong. They Obeyed | HMS Victoria, 1893

The Fire Killed Nine of Them. The Sea Killed Thirty | K-278 Komsomolets, 1989

A Battleship Rolled Over in Its Own Harbor. The Knocking Lasted Two Days | Novorossiysk, 1955

Britain's Worst Shipwreck Killed More Than Titanic and Lusitania Combined | HMT Lancastria, 1940

Every Woman and Child Lived. Four Hundred Soldiers Did Not | HMS Birkenhead, 1852

749 Americans Died Rehearsing D-Day. Then They Were Told to Forget It | Exercise Tiger, 1944

The Only British Submarine the Enemy Ever Captured | HMS Seal, 1940

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A Hundred Men Lived Through the Explosion. Ten Came Home | USS Juneau, 1942

Their Submarine Sank in Twenty Seconds. Then They Swam All Night | USS Flier, 1944

Dried Paint in a Half-Inch Hole Sank a Brand-New Submarine | HMS Thetis, 1939

He Closed the Watertight Door on His Own Shipmates | USS Squalus, 1939

Nine Men Bailed Out Over What They Thought Was the Sea | Lady Be Good, 1943

Of the Ten Who Set Out, Two Came Back | Operation Frankton, Bordeaux 1942

When One Man With One Eye Liberated a City: Leo Major, Zwolle 1945

When American GIs and German Soldiers Fought Side by Side: Castle Itter, 1945

When a Farmer With No Scope Became the White Death: Kollaa 1939

When a Tiny Polish Tankette Hunted German Panzers | Orlik, 1939

When Green Panthers Met Veteran Shermans: The Battle of Arracourt 1944

When a Destroyer Charged the Yamato: The Last Stand of USS Johnston