I found a placard in my great-grandfather's scrapbook, it's with some other WW1 items so I'm guessing it's related to the war. But what is it?

At around the 25 minute mark of Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives, one of the women interviewed, whom I have not been able to identify, talks about the persecution of gay men in the mid-20th century: Subject: Well, at that time, it was illegal to have a house party with o...

I'm reading "Kenya Diary" by Richard Meinertzhagen where he relates his experiences as a junior officer in the British army around 1902. At one point he states that during his 5 year service in East Africa he saved about 3000 pounds, because he had no expenses to speak of. I fed that figure into ...

I have been trying, without success, to find an exemplification or any lesser copy of the Papal bull (issued by Pope Sixtus IV on November 1, 1478) known as Exigit Sinceras Devotionis Affectus (sometimes Exigit Sincerae Devotionis) which authorized what became known as the Spanish Inquisition. I...

石井 四郎 (Shirō Ishii) was a surgeon in the Japanese Army, making the rank of General and earned the Order of the Golden Kite, Fourth Class. He committed war crimes, but made a deal with the U.S. to give what he learned for his freedom. The U.S. accepted. He died of throat cancer. I am writing a pa...

The attached picture shows what is believed to be a membership pin. Is it possible to identify the organization? The pin is from the USA and dates from the period 1890-1914. A possibility is that it is from either North or South Dakota, but this is uncertain.