New York Public Library Puts 20,000 Hi-Res Maps Online & Makes Them Free To Download And Use(Post)

    Our friends at the New York Public Library have made a proclamation.  New York Public Library Map Collection Release Announcement ...

    Read All About It! In Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper(Post)

    Whereas the Internet and cable television are the ways most receive their news today, in 1855 Frank Leslie’s Illustrated News published its first issue with a run of only 30 copies. It was an inaus ...

    NY Times: Ruth Newman, A Survivor Of The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Dies At 113(Post)

    Ruth Newman, a Survivor of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Dies at 113 ...

    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 th ...

    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 ...

    Susan Glaspell and Alison’s House(Post)

    News of the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for drama elated the playwright, infuriated the theater critics, and surprised everyone. Alison’s House by Susan Glaspell beat out plays by such greats as Maxwell Ande ...

    “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 ...

    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 oc ...

    States Helping States. It Has Happened Before.(Post)

    In response to the medical disaster unfolding in New York, the governors of Oregon, Washington and California sent ventilators. Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots football team, sent 300 ...

    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 ...

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