Louise White Suydam Noble (1885-1912) Sweet seventeen and manly nineteen – that was the verdict of fashionable society when Louise W...

The "Spider Web" chart, created by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, defamed Progressive-era women activists (1923-4).         ...

Big catch: J.H. Jordan, fishing in Maine (probably 1920s)  It’s July of 1910 and Joshua Hawkins Jordan is about to close his shop on Wes...

View from "Dellwood," the Bigelow family's lake house on Manitou Island, Minnesota Like most researchers, I often stumble ...

Commentary by Bill Mauldin appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times  on November 23, 1963, one day after the assassination of President Kennedy. ...

Endpapers of Parlez-vous Francais? A First Book in French There’s a book that my mother has kept since the summer of 1940 when she rece...

Illustration from a New York Times story about Princess Zizianoff, April 1921 Once there was a Russian princess who wanted to live in...