Margaret Rudkin was a force of nature on the farm, in the bakery and in the boardroom. You may not know her name. But you’ve certainly enjoyed delicious breads and snacks inspired by her idyllic Connecticut estate. Pepperidge Farm. Yes, it’s a real place. The Pepperidge Farm brand today is a powerhouse of the American...
Eugene Polley should be ther most popular man on the planet. He left a legacy of leisure that billions of people lean upon each and every day, often for hours on end. Polley, a self-taught mechanical engineer from Chicago, invented the television remote control in 1955. He envisioned a future in which we never had...
March Madness afflicts millions of American sports fans each year during springtime. Victims of the fever exhibit spontaneous outbreaks of basketball jargon, cry over busted brackets and call in sick to work on Thursdays and Fridays. There is no known cure for March Madness. But basketballogists know its origin. The malady was first diagnosed in...
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...
