This topical category is for articles and content that focus on U.S. history.
The first basketball game was played in 1891. Let’s see some original newspaper articles about the “new” sport from 1892.
“Though our mode of life has greatly changed, [the Thanksgiving] custom has always survived.”
The first Veterans Day proclamation.
A photograph of a vintage “American Beauty PASTA” mural seen on the side of a building in Brooklyn’s Columbia Street Waterfront District.
A death mask of the fifth President of the United States, James Monroe.
A look at the artist who crafted life masks of eminent Americans from the early Republic.
The July 4 death and extraordinary life of James Monroe, the 5th President of the United States.
A poem by the elder Oliver Wendell Holmes.
President Biden was born closer to Lincoln’s assassination than to his own inauguration. This inspired a study…
A look back at one of the worst fires in U.S. history – 114 years to the day.
A (less) famous portrait of George Washington as President in Masonic regalia.
(Post)man’s best friend.