Pieter van der Borcht the Elder's "Ijsvermaak bij Mechelen", 1559 If a skating history aficionado from the twenty-third c...

Photo courtesy Sveriges Centralförening för Idrottens Främjande Archive The son of Otto and Ellen (Herzman) Rooth, Harald Rooth was bo...

When you dig through skating history, you never know what you will unearth. In the spirit of cataloguing fascinating tales from skating hist...

You may never have heard of the Sorbians. The Sorbians (or Wends as those living in nearby Germanic settlements often referred to them) ...

Tom Engelhardt editorial cartoon from St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 18, 1994. Photo courtesy The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Carto...

Photo courtesy Julia C. Schulze Radios blared with news of the Vietnam War and Beatlemania. Cassius Clay had just been crowned the he...

Photo courtesy Joseph Butchko Collection, an acquisition of the Skate Guard Archive "I think of myself as a glider floating throug...