Ashcan School painter George B. Luks sketched dinner at Maria's restaurant in Greenwich Village, 1890s. In the 1890s, Maria’s res...

In 1899 when they started the Blue Pencil Club, the men were a bunch of rambunctious, though well-established, writers. They rent...

The British established five treaty ports, including Amoy, soon after winning the First Opium War in 1842.   On a beautiful fall d...

There once was a city where nothing stood still. Brilliant and wild, William Fales inhabited that place. In 1880, he first ventured...

Officials arrive at the Capitol for Theodore Roosevelt's 1905 inauguration (Library of Congress) T’was a sparkling day, the sky f...

Elena Your grandmother Elena was extraordinarily beautiful. She had long brown hair and spent much of each morning putting it up in p...