Cole's fascinating study, The Journey of Life, is not so much the history of aging per se, but of attitudes toward it and toward those to whom old age happens. It is therefore necessarily also ...
Stuck between the lavish mansions of the Gilded Age and the scandalous excess of the Roaring Twenties, the Progressive Era is an underappreciated passage in Americanhistory. Roughly covering the ...
The eerily captivating series, which borrows details from the iconic Jewish author’s life and a crucial moment in Americanhistory, depicts an alternative reality in which isolationist Charles ...
Surgeons standing at the ready tended Swartwout's wounds. In America, duels were fought by men from all walks of life. But many of America's most important citizens defended their honor on the ...