From the Los Angeles Times: Aug. 13, 1965: National Guard troops secure a stretch of 103rd Street, dubbed Charcoal Alley,…
In David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize winning 1776, he writes of the astonishing physical prowess of our first president, something that…
A locomotive whistle was a matter of some personal importance to a railroad engineer. It was tuned and worked (even…
There is an amazing show of Utagawa Kuniyoshi's woodblock prints at the Japan Society on East 47th St. Go now,…
Offutt talked big about Lincoln as a wrestler and Bill Clary, who ran a saloon 30 steps north of the…
Josef Koudelka told Sean O'Hagan of the Guardian that it was a year after the Soviet invasion of Prague when…
This past Sunday, "Mad Men" (Season 3 Episode 2) referenced the venerable architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable when Paul Kinsey…
Stonewall Jackson, one of the great and almost mythical military genius' of the Civil War, was mistakenly shot by his…
Though it is worthy of complaint that Patton is too often quoted, I still enjoy his ostentatious style and absolute…