The federal government enacted nationwide Daylight Saving Time amid the darkest depths of wartime fears on this day in history, Feb. 9, 1942. "Passed by Congress and signed into law by President ...

Missouri's first wartime blackout drill sends O'Fallon, Mo., into darkness for 34 minutes. Residents feared the town is a target because it was near the TNT plant in Weldon Spring. Howard V. Stephens, ...

The mid-October 1942 flood left widespread flooding across the area and set record high river crest along most of our rivers.

The U.S. Army K-9 Corps, which trained more than 10,000 dogs to serve several branches of the American military in World War II, began barking orders to its four-legged foot soldiers on this day in ...

I've been reading the book, "The Year of Peril: America in 1942," released in May of 2020. Author Tracy Campbell asserts that newspaper articles and the statements by public officials in that year ...

BLANDFORD — Indignant residents of this town (population 469) defended today the virtue and dignity of their community against inferences that the presence of a nudist camp at Otis, a few miles away, ...

On October 4, 1942, a strong activist, singer and historian was born in Albany.Bernice Johnson Reagon was the daughter of a Baptist minister, so she grew up singing in church in the Good Life City.