Abel French Spawn was not alone in marketing caffeine-free coffee substitutes like banana coffee to Mormons.

White County, TN, averaged more than a million and a half gallons of moonshine a year at late as the 1950s.

In 1943, the idea of a farmers market at which produce was sold directly to the customer was nearly unheard of, a relic of the distant past.

Betty Crocker, the woman who would become America’s most beloved baker, sprang to life in 1921 in an all-male advertising department.

Everyone knows the potato chip was invented in Saratoga Springs, NY in 1853. Except it wasn’t.

In 1880, Dr. Leslie E. Keeley promised a cure for the disease of drunkenness. The community he developed influenced our understanding of treating addiction.