At last year’s Watches & Wonders show in Geneva, Rolex introduced a brand-new product line called the 1908. A dress watch on a leather strap in yellow gold or white gold with its Perpetual movement ...

The Apache chief Geronimo was still alive, as were the outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, not to mention the former slave Harriet Tubman, and the first nurse, Florence Nightingale, and the ...

When the investors in the Henry Ford Company couldn’t get Henry to design and build cars for sale they turned to Detroit’s “Master of Precision,” Henry Leland, in 1902 to appraise the company’s assets ...

The 2016 Chicago Cubs are going to the World Series — for the first time since 1945. The Cubs defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-0 on Saturday night at Wrigley Field to clinch the National League ...

A lawsuit brought by an injured fan revealed that an umpire blew an important call in a 1908 baseball game. Few tangible elements remain of the 1908 baseball season: The players who took part in it, ...

Explore items in the Smithsonian's collections related to the year 1908. Held in trust for the American people, the Smithsonian’s collections document our nation’s shared history, art from across the ...

The 1908 Olympics were originally awarded to Rome but money that would have been spent on the Games was required elsewhere following the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius. London stepped in to take over ...

Explore items in the Smithsonian's collections related to the year 1908. Held in trust for the American people, the Smithsonian’s collections document our nation’s shared history, art from across the ...