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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

    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

    “A Fortress Besieged By An Invading Army”: The Astor Place Riot(Post)

    On the evening of May 10, 1849, the British Shakespearean actor William Charles Macready, playing Macbeth, stepped onto the stage of the palatial Astor Place Opera House in lower Manhattan. Built i

    Halloween - Chapter 1 : “Thys Yere The Towne Of Depe” (Part 1)(Post)

    Halloween is at once the most orange-blooded American and the most other-worldly of holidays. With its roots in the spooky spirit-wanderings of Celtic lands, Halloween was brought to America by Ir

    Napoleon Lajoie, The Definition Of Grace(Post)

    Written upon the Hall of Fame plaque of Napoleon “Larry” Lajoie, it reads “the most graceful and efficient second baseman of his era.” According to all accounts of his contemporaries and others who

    “A Span, A Cry, An Ecstasy"(Post)

    If the Brooklyn Bridge were nothing more than an engineering marvel, that would have been enough to insure its place in the pantheon of great American civic enterprises. It was more than the sum of

    It Came From Above: A Visual History of Astronomy(Post)

     By Leah Dearborn When NASA's New Horizons probe hurtled past Pluto in 2015, it provided hundreds of new images of the far corners of the solar system.  Artists, however, have been creating detailed

    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

    The Gold Rush’s Hazy Grays(Post)

    John W. Marshall inadvertently made — and changed — history on January 24, 1848, when the carpenter found bits of gold at entrepreneur John Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California. The men tried to keep

    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

    Testimonials(Page)

    I recently purchased a copy of Gen Timothy Ruggles' portrait - Gen Ruggles is my 6th great grandfather. Can you tell me were the original portrait can be found? - D. Tolstrup<

    Halloween - Foreword: A Coal-Region Halloween(Post)

    If, as they say, America is a melting pot, then Halloween is its seething witchly cauldron, a macabre mashup, a hobgoblined hobnob of Celtic mythology, German hexerei, and Transylvanian folkl

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