Zayda Zabriskie, 1914 It’s surprising to see Romer Shawhan’s name listed as one of the ushers at Zayda’s first wedding in 1911. She ...

My high school boyfriend emigrated from Brazil to the U.S. around 1960. Crazy in love, I tried to pry that story out of him, looking...

Advertisements for the book appeared exclusively in To-morrow Magazine , an early 20 th century journal whose writers enthused abou...

Violet Romer, 1910 It made complete sense that they lived in a quintessential American house: an elegant Foursquare with generous ...

Advertisement for a book by Parker Sercombe,  evidently never published  He was a newsboy, editor, capitalist, anarchist, and lectu...

Watching Jacob Bernstein’s new documentary about his mother, Nora Ephron, reminded me that she co-wrote the screenplay for the 1983 film...

The name of the author of Willie Wong, American , was a pseudonym. Vanya Oakes (Virginia Armstrong Oakes) was a librarian, journalist, a...