In 1922, the poet James Rorty published “What Michael Said to the Census-Taker .”  The poem is not well-known; just 150 pretty co...

Ballroom at the Hotel Fort Des Moines in Des Moines, Iowa, site of the 1921 convention of the National Education Association   Sum...

    Photos by Claudia Keenan https://www.throughthehourglass.com/2019/07/three-views-from-52nd-floor.html?m=1

The H. W. Wilson Company produced The Debaters Handbook Series  between 1910 and about 1950. In 1907, a Minneapolis publishing e...

Wedged between two buildings at the Melrose station along the Metro North line to North White Plains I have traveled along this trai...

Edith May Penney, passport photo, 1930s Once there were two women named Edith May, and coincidentally both of their surnames started w...

Some New York newsstands still use wooden blocks to keep papers from blowing away.  The Sun ceased publication in 1950. When I was gro...