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    Baseball's Bloomer Girls(Post)

    You have probably seen the movie “A League of their Own” starring Madonna and Geena Davis.  Women’s baseball teams, belonging to the All-American Girls Baseball League (AAGBL) brought the game back

    Nellie Tayloe Ross: More Than A Woman(Post)

    By Andrew BelonskyEvery year newspapers and historians commemorate Nellie Tayloe Ross’  January 5, 1925, inauguration as the nation’s first female governor. And it certainly was a momentous occasion

    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

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    The Chicago World's Fair Invented The Best And The Worst(Post)

    In 1871, a fire started in the city of Chicago that burnt its buildings to cinder and ashes. After two days of the fire spreading through four miles of inner city, it naturally put itself out. It w

    Elephants On The Brooklyn Bridge(Post)

    It was an audacious project from the start. Fourteen years in the building, the Brooklyn Bridge easily catapulted itself into the ranks of the Seven Wonders of the Industrial Age. The Bridge was a t

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    I recently purchased a copy of Gen Timothy Ruggles' portrait - Gen Ruggles

    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

    On Nostalgia - An Essay(Page)

     

    Jane Addams, George Pullman, and King Lear(Post)

    The career of Jane Addams (1860-1935) was bracketed by the founding of the Chicago social settlement, Hull House, in 1889, and her receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. Her list of accomplishmen

    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

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