Official Olympic sales of T-shirts emblazoned with the poster of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, known as the "Nazi Games", have caused a stir but the International Olympic Committee defended the move on ...

The governing body for the Olympics is defending its sale of a limited-edition T-shirt commemorating the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin under Adolf Hitler’s Germany. The $42 shirt, which was condemned ...

History hasn’t been kind to Alf Landon. When he’s remembered at all, Landon is known as the man foolish enough to challenge Franklin D. Roosevelt in the middle of the Great Depression. The Republican ...

It’s July. It’s Illinois. It’s hot. It’s normal. But 75 years ago, summer 1936 was anything but normal for Springfield and the rest of the Midwest. Four of Springfield’s 10 hottest days ever came ...

The winter of 1935 36 was *** harsh one with frigid temperatures and lots of snow including three January storms. And there wasn't much relief to follow in March. More slow moving storms brought in ...

One man, five days of competition, four gold medals won. That equation should have been enough to make any athlete stand out in a crowd of his contemporaries. Yet Jesse Owens' performances in the ...

The 17,300,000 votes for the New Deal, cast by U. S. citizens on Nov. 6, gave Franklin Roosevelt a mountain’ of political prestige. Last week he used it all when he presented Congress with his 1936 ...

I sat in my home office and thought to myself: “What method may be the best way to explain all the important things the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1936 technical committee has done ...