American History
Go West! Then Back to the Future.
History is full of narratives and those narratives have a history.
Introducing “Women in America: Extra and Ordinary”
The stories of our past are powerful tools. They can be reminders of our successes and cautions of our failures.
How Yellowstone Was Saved by a Teddy Roosevelt Dinner Party and a Fake Photo in a Gun Magazine
A chill rain drizzled over guests arriving at Bamie Roosevelt’s midtown brownstone near the corner of Madison Avenue and East 62nd Street in December 1887. There weren’t many of them, but all had two things in common: they were New York’s most influential and rich social elite, and they all loved hunting big game. All were hand-picked by the h
Portrait Life of Lincoln
Daughters of America
Author Phebe Hanaford was inspired by her famous cousin, women's rights activist Lucretia Mott, to become a suffragist herself. The inscription of this book reads: "To the women of future centuries of the United States of America, this record of many women of the first and second centuries whose lives were full of usefulness, and therefore worthy of renown and imitation."
The Women of the American Revolution, Vol. 1
Imagination Illustrated
Did you know that the original Kermit the Frog was made from ping pong balls, a pair of blue jeans, and an old coat that belonged to Jim Henson’s mother?
The Glory of America
California Illustrated
“Dear Reader: If you have visited California, you will find nothing in these pages to interest you; if you have not, they may serve to kill an idle hour." With this bit of stark understatement, the reader is introduced to California Illustrated, a journal published in 1852. This book chronicles the author’s journey with a group of travelers making their way to California. There’s whale spotting, a shipwide illness, and the travelers' arrival at the Islands of Turks and Caicos—and that’s just in the first chapter.
