DeFord Bailey was born on December 14, 1899, and he remains one of the most trailblazing musicians in country music history.

Discover the history of boxing in Ripon, from the 1920s to the formation of the Ripon Boxing Club in 1973. Learn about the ...

Supplementing commercial and public radio, community radio stations typically operated with a volunteer or low-wage staff and ...

Turn on the radio and youll hear WABC in New York or KROQ in LA. Those different letters arent random—theyre part of a system dating back to the 1920s.

Small mining towns flourished at the start of the 1900s, and many were abandoned by the mid-century. Up until the 1930s, horse-drawn carriages and automobiles could still be seen on the same streets.