Newspaper story about Xesia  (1891)   As a young journalist who covered the theater, Allan Forman hung around eavesdropping and hoping ...

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise Giovanni di Paolo, 1445 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) This came to me last w...

Advertising card, 1890s (New York Public Library) Allan Forman was born by the beach on Long Island, in a cottage built by his Mayflowe...

Street Scene (Hester Street) by George Luks, 1905 (Brooklyn Museum) May 28, 1903 – Carnegie Hall is packed. The headliners include  ...

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...