Watch Tower History

This is up for comment ... COMMENT. Not that we'll get many. Mostly because many of our readers have never researched this material. But...

I know many of our readers are more interested in side-issues and Watch Tower trivia than solid, significant research. I am not unsympatheti...

Ultimately there was quite a nice response to the recent Quiz photograph both in comments on the blog and back-channel. Here is the co...

I found a number articles in Hawaiian newspapers that address an important issue. I have them as pdf files. We need someone to type them ou...

  The Rock Island Argus, Jan. 3, 1913

This is a little bit of light audience participation. Can you identify the person photographed with CTR? I will wait three days before givi...

Not relevant to the time period we write about, but interesting. This is from The, Aurora, Missouri, Menace of April 12, 1919. The Menace ...

If you have research projects of your own that involve American events, this site is one of the major newspaper search resources .... http...

Perrysburg, Ohio, Register - Feb. 28, 1918

Bruce's emails thanking those who contributed to our purchase of a very expensive but needed book seem to have bounced. So I am thanking...

We need to quickly raise $40.00 to buy an otherwise very expensive book for our research. If you can, paypal works through Mr. Schulz' e...

We would entertain articles on the prevalence of millennialist views in Scandanavia, the UK, Germany and Switzerland from the late 17th Cent...

Old photos give us an idea of what living there was like. Here is one showing part of the 4th of July parade, 1907. Not directly related to ...

by Bernhard ( edited by Jerome) RUSSELL, MARIA FRANCES December 1884 – November 1897 When Charles T. Russell became presid...