Category Archives: History

As of the 2024 election season, Al Gore is the youngest person to finish runner-up in a U.S. presidential election. He has held the record for 24 years. But is that THE all time record? I examine.

A photo and history post on a little fireboat in Brooklyn Bridge Park named after former New York governor Alfred E. Smith.

I examine each case in U.S. history where there were consecutive presidential elections involving a candidate running as the incumbent president.

Who wins more often in U.S. Presidentail elections: The older candidate or the younger? What if we separate out incumbent races? Let us find out…

Taking a look at the biggest age gaps in U.S. presidential election tickets between the presidential and vice presidential nominees.

Visiting a weathered World I Memorial on Tillary and Jay Streets in Downtown Brooklyn.

Four Presidents — Hiram ULYSSES Grant, Stephen GROVER Cleveland, Thomas WOODROW Wilson, and John CALVIN Coolidge — effectively used their middle names as first names. In this article, I examine each of these interesting presidential name cases.

I consult original English sources to get to the bottom of the meaning and history of Japan’s ai ai gasa (“love umbrella”).

The Bush Clinton Playground is named for one failed presidential candidate, but that is not why the name is memorable.

“The toast is, “Freedom’s favorite son,
Health, peace, and joy to Washington!”

A detailed history of New York City’s Evacuation Day, a former holiday that landed on November 25 and was second only to Independence Day in NYC’s patriotic pantheon.

Examining Greanda’s annual October 25 Thanksgiving, which commemorates the beginning of the 1983 American-led intervention to restore order in the small Caribbean nation.