In 1882, President Chester Alan Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese immigrants from the U.S. for 10 years (Arthur had opposed an earlier version with a 20-year ban). In 1910, ...

Around 86 years ago, a German airship, the Hindenburg, crashed in Lakehurst, New Jersey. The disaster still resonates, thanks to newsreel footage and the dramatic recording made by radio broadcaster ...

In their time and in their brief day, they were the lords of the skies. A little more than a century ago, giant airships that resembled huge sausages, as long as a city block, moved majestically ...

We haven’t seen airships in our skies since the days of the Hindenburg disaster – a German airship that caught fire in the skies over New Jersey. But has airship technology matured? Bedford, UK-based ...

Just as the German airship Graf Zeppelin hovered over her home port Friedrichshafen last week, the German Lloyd seaship Columbus moored fast to her Manhattan dock. Aboard her was James Leslie Kincaid, ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection consists of a small cloth-bound notebook published by the Deutschen Luftschiffer-Verbandes (German Airship Association) and used ...