Breaking the Two-Term Tradition: FDR’s Historic Third Term
On November 5, 1940, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt broke the two-term tradition by defeating Republican challenger Wendell Willkie and winning an unprecedented third presidential election. George Washington had established the ...
The Industrial Jar: George A. Ball and the Muncie Dynasty
Born on November 5, 1862, in Ohio, George Alexander Ball helped his four brothers build a glass-manufacturing business closely associated with American home canning. He joined the family enterprise in ...
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The King of the Cowboys: Roy Rogers and the Western Myth
Born Leonard Franklin Slye on November 5, 1911, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Roy Rogers became one of the defining singing cowboys of American popular culture. His breakthrough came in 1938 with ...
The Steel Slingshot: A Historic Catapult Launch from USS North Carolina
On November 5, 1915, Lieutenant Commander Henry C. Mustin made aviation history in Pensacola Bay, Florida, when he launched a Curtiss AB-2 flying boat from the stern of USS North ...
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The Loss of USS Alcedo: An Armed Yacht in the U-Boat War
On November 5, 1917, USS Alcedo (SP-166) became the first United States Navy ship sunk by enemy action during World War I. Originally a private yacht, she had been purchased and converted ...
Benjamin Butler: Controversy, Contraband, and Civil Rights
Born on November 5, 1818, in Deerfield, New Hampshire, Benjamin Franklin Butler became a lawyer, Union general, and politician whose career combined bitter controversy with consequential contributions to emancipation and ...
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Beyond the Log Cabin: Ida Tarbell Reconsiders Lincoln’s Frontier Childhood
Born on November 5, 1857, in Erie County, Pennsylvania, Ida Minerva Tarbell became an influential investigative journalist and a substantial biographer of Abraham Lincoln. Before publishing the Standard Oil investigation ...
The Charles W. Morgan: Eighty Years Under Sail
On November 5, 1900, the Charles W. Morgan departed San Francisco for Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk, beginning another voyage in a remarkable working career. Built in New Bedford, ...
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The Ballot and the Jailhouse: Susan B. Anthony’s Defiance
On November 5, 1872, Susan B. Anthony cast a ballot in the presidential election in Rochester, New York, challenging women’s exclusion from voting. Days earlier, she had persuaded local election ...
