History Captain

12/17/2025

12/17/2025

Glasgow Montana is often called the Middle of Nowhere. Founded in 1887 as a railroad stop known as Siding 24 it grew through farming along the Milk River.

The town boomed during the Great Depression with the Fort Peck Dam and later during the Cold War with the Glasgow Air Force Base. When the base closed in the late 1960s the population fell sharply.

Today about three thousand two hundred people live there embracing isolation and small town resilience.

12/17/2025

A Coca-Cola delivery man filling a Coca-Cola machine while a Shell station attendant stands holding a cola and watching. Terre Haute, Indiana, 1957.

12/16/2025

Ideas that were once illegal but are normal today

12/16/2025

Gold miners descend into the Empire Mine in Grass Valley, California, around 1900. The mine was one of the richest and deepest hard rock gold mines in the United States, drawing thousands of workers seeking fortune beneath the earth.

Working conditions were harsh and dangerous, with miners spending long hours underground facing cave ins, toxic air, and extreme heat, all in pursuit of California’s gold wealth.

12/16/2025

A Canadian invention from 1939, this plastic contraption offered protection for the face in snowstorms.

12/16/2025

Galileo supported the idea that Earth revolved around the Sun.

In the 1600s, this contradicted Church doctrine.
He was arrested, forced to recant, and spent the rest of his life under house arrest.

For centuries, his name was associated with heresy.
In 1992, the Vatican officially admitted Galileo was right and acknowledged its mistake.

Today, he is called the father of modern science.

12/15/2025

Outcast who became heroes when society changed

12/15/2025

One day in 1839, Robert Cornelius sat for 15 minutes in front of a hand-built camera made of opera glass and sheets of copper. His picture became the first “selfie” ever taken.