Newspaper sketch of Imogene C. Fales, delegate to the 1896 Populist Party Convention. The first women delegates to the Republican and D...

Grace T. Lewis's Mt. Vernon, circa 1910 In 1915, Miss Lewis started as a clerk in the high school business office; within s...

Gloria Stromberg, age 17 (1945) During the war years when my mother was coming of age in a neighborhood called Inwood at the norther...

Murray Schloss, around 1905 At its peak in the early 19 th century, the Jewish community of Kleinsteinach-Riedbach in Lower Francon...

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...