Nathan Nearest Green rose from the inhumanity of slavery to lift American spirits around the world. Green lived in bondage in the years before the Civil War. He operated a farmhouse distillery for minister slave owner and grocery-store operator Dan Call in Lynchburg, Tennessee. It was there that the middle-aged, African-American distiller taught a poor,...
Garrett A. Morgan is emerging as a larger-than-life figure in American history. International recognition for the brilliant Cleveland entrepreneur comes a century after his life-saving inventions helped reshape the modern world — from the battlefield to the firehouse to the family road trip. He possessed a unique humanitarian gift for turning tragedy into life-saving inventions....
Bill France Sr. was born with a mind for business, a gift for people and a need for speed. He turned those passions into a nationwide obsession with stock car racing. France founded the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing — NASCAR — on Feb. 21, 1948, in Daytona Beach, Florida. NASCAR has grown...
Joseph L. Owades, the son of working-class Jewish immigrants who escaped Europe shortly before ethnic turmoil ignited World War I, enjoyed an unlikely career reinventing the way Americans drink beer. Not once, but twice. His claim to fame? That he was, and still is, America’s greatest brewer. FOX NATION’S NEW SERIES ‘MEET THE AMERICAN WHO’...
Incendiary sounds shooting like fireworks off the strings of an electric guitar have defined pop music around the world for 70 years. Credit Adolph Rickenbacker (1887-1976) for this world-wide wonder of the airwaves. The Swiss-born entrepreneur invented the electric guitar in California alongside partner George Beauchamp in the midst of the Great Depression of the...
Poultry pioneer Teressa Bellissimo inspired a delicious all-American bar-food phenomenon. The late restaurateur cooked the first batch of Buffalo wings, the most iconic of all barroom bites, by happenstance one winter night in 1964 at Anchor Bar in Buffalo. Her invention soon upended an entire multi-billion-dollar sector of American agriculture. FOX NATION’S NEW SERIES ‘MEET...
Imagine the United States of America without football — our most popular sport and a cherished cultural spectacle. No Friday night lights, Saturday afternoon madness or Super Bowl Sunday. It nearly happened. Gruesome violence on the gridiron in the early 1900s spurred calls from pigskin prohibitionists to spike football. St. Louis University star Bradbury Robinson...
He has not talked about Jimmy Hoffa since 1975. Now, Gabriel Briguglio, the last Jimmy Hoffa suspect still alive, has decided to speak out to me and Fox News. “I have nothing to hide,” he says. “I was home that night … and If they don’t want to believe me, that’s their business.” Briguglio is...
Clarence Birdseye proved you can’t judge a book by its cover. The Brooklyn native and frozen food pioneer looked scholarly in his spectacles, as if he belonged at the head of a college lecture hall. He was in fact a college dropout. The slight, narrow-shouldered free spirit instead lived a life of adventure. He explored...
