The conversation between the former president and the Prussian prince was more than just pleasantries.
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The First Triple Crown Winner
Sir Barton was an ill-tempered, tender-footed, six-time loser when he came to the starting […]
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We’ve Been Here Before: William Henry Harrison Showed Rich Presidential Candidates How to Win
POOR PEOPLE DON’T RUN for president, yet the rich people who do all want […]
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Gazette- American History June 2012
First African-American Church Revived It took six years and $9.5 million to move Boston’s […]
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American History Museum Review: Attachments
Attachments: Faces and Stories From America’s Gates Lawrence F. O’Brien Gallery, National Archives, Washington, […]
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Book Review: Here Lies Hugh Glass / A Mountain Man, A Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation
Here Lies Hugh Glass: A Mountain Man, A Bear, and the Rise of the […]
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‘My Bed Was Two Boulders’: John Muir’s Expedition to Glacier Bay, Alaska
In 1890, the famed naturalist confronted dangerous ice to experience the aurora borealis among the icebergs.
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Weegee’s World
There were 8 million stories in the Naked City, and he didn’t want to […]
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Gold Grab of 1869
The saga of two fiendishly corrupt financiers who almost took America down in 1869 […]
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Jack London’s Monumental Man Cave
A mysterious fire left the novelist’s dream house in ruins before he could forsake […]