Lillian Gish, 1919 Portrait by Hamilton King  One summer during the mid-1970s, I had a job working for a literary publicist who was a...

Discouraged by his lack of success as a writer, James D. Corrothers trained to be an amateur boxer.  When it is told, the life of Jam...

James D. Corrothers, 1890s Around 1900 while James D. Corrothers was the pastor of a Methodist church in Red Bank, N.J., he attended ...

Upon entering his shop, you bumped into a glass case  full of what’s now called “Boho” jewelry. . .  In the summer of 1971, I w...

End of the Trail  by James Earle Fraser; monumental plaster cast sculpture was commissioned for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Expo...

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 – Succes...