The chair pictured in 1891. The Turkey-work chair sat in the parlor of a house that overlooked the Connecticut River. In the winter when t...

  If you were searching for something to read in colonial America, you might have picked up Gulliver’s Travels , Poor Richard’s Almanack or...

John P. Marquand by Gardner Cox, 1955 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Gift of Phyllis B. Cox Sometimes when my sons were ...

  First pages of Mary Ann Horneman's pamphlet, The First Ladies of the White House (in miniature) I can’t wait to get back to 1941 so th...

   from  Increase of Population in the United States, 1910-1920 by William S. Rossiter (1922) An entire century separates the 1920 and 2020 ...

  Marked 1 00 in pencil in the upper right corner of the flyleaf, this 1905 edition of Leaves of Grass sat on our bookshelf for as far back ...

Oliver Victor Limerick as Billy Burgundy Billy Burgundy’s Letters , published in 1902, is one of Oliver Victor Limerick’s several rude books...