This is the ninth post in our themed series, Cities at Play. By Jason Collins To this day, Eden Gardens is fondly remembered as one of the ...
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This is the untold story of the last performance of Harry Houdini, who—inspired by his hero Abraham Lincoln—devotes himself full-time to a ...
The Family History Guide is a leading site for family history learning, research, and activities … but it gets even better when you combine it with Google ...
Did you celebrate Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples’ Day? The two holidays have a lot in common. Columbus Day was first proclaimed by president ...
State Historical Society of North Dakota staff began working on content for the new Military Gallery in summer 2024. I wanted to share a few things that I ...
With so many treatments addressing slavery in just the last two decades it is difficult to find one that does not read like déjà vu. That is not the case ...
But soon a walking talking Father Knickerbocker appeared. His name was James J. O’Brien, a professor of modern languages at Fordham University. O’Brien ...
Odds are there isn’t a Civil War buff living who hasn’t seen a copy of this remarkable pencil sketch (above) by special artist Edwin Forbes, which ...
George Reynolds. Source: Public domain, Improvement Era, Volume 12, page 908, available here.Early LifeGeorge Reynolds was born in Marylebone, England, ...
CHICAGO (September 21, 2026) — The Chicago History Museum will unveil the “Westside Love Map” project, a new installation created in collaboration ...
What would Baptists at the time of the American Revolution have thought about the notion that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, an ...
[This week marks the 60th anniversary of the debut of the Batman TV show & the 50th of The Bionic Woman. So I’ll AmericanStudy those shows & three ...
