As the dutiful daughter of liberal Democrats, it behooved me to work on the McGovern campaign during the summer of 1972. McGovern ran on...

William Hill Hunt, 1900 Just at that moment, timing couldn’t be better – the turn of the switch of the twentieth century – Successful...

J. Howard Moore vehemently opposed cruelty to animals. In 1910, the State of Illinois passed an unusual law. It required the teach...

Mrs. Friedlander's morning kindergarten class, 1963 “Kindergarten babies!” That’s what the teacher said as she pushed a few n...

 " Mrs. Warren Springer, a well-to-do society woman of Chicago, visiting in the "Ghetto." Mrs. Springer is one of the many ...

My grandfather (right), cigar store proprietor; the helpers wearing aprons worked with the cigars -- early 1920s   Genealogical resear...

Warren Springer, 1890s Traveling back to 1890, the dark front hall of the Prairie Avenue mansion when the son walked out or was told to...