The Stories Of Monhegan Island(Post)

    Monhegan Island is a wild, sometimes harsh place. Native Americans roamed here fishing its waters and exploring its rocky wooded terrain. Pirates landed on its shores, some say leaving buried treas

    Origins of the Historic Bird's Eye View Map(Page)

    Origins of the Historic Bird's Eye View Map

    Ye Ghost Ship(Post)

    An hour before sunset, after a stormy June day, in the year 1648, a crowd of colonists from the very new town of New Haven stood at the shore to watch a ship sail into harbor. While many had

    Press(Page)

    Press Release, June 2024 On Nostal

    Bayard Rustin, Man Of Many Faces(Post)

    Ronald Reagan praised Bayard Rustin’s “moral courage” after the gay civil rights activist’s death in 1987. An anti-gay praising a gay black rabble-rouser who advised Martin Luther King? The 80s wer

    History of the Company(Page)

    History of the Company Historian Michael J. Simpson has written an article

    The Great Bartholdi Statue Of Liberty (Post)

     "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the gold

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    The American Library Association’s Library War Service(Post)

    “In the ability to reach, educate and affect the adult population the library occupies a position of great responsibility and is a great power for national defense.”  - Charles B. Alexander, spee

    Research Locates Site Of Salem Witch Hangings(Post)

    From the Boston Globe: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/01/12/researchers-confirm-site-salem-hangings/ReOusTREuXUo8RdxARGLNI/story.html

    Rare Pictures Capture Native Americans In Late 1800s (Post)

    This article appeared on the Voice of American "Learning English" website. The Library of Congress has a famous collection of Indian photographs taken by Edward Curtis. The above photograph of a Bla

    Edward Penfield And The American Poster(Post)

    Edward Penfield’s first poster for Harper’s in 1893 shows a man in a green coat absorbed in reading a magazine while being splashed by raindrops; the display type accompanying the figure is as mat