Melissa Berry writes about abolitionist families who for many years acted as “conductors” on the Underground Railroad in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania... (Read More)
The current presidential campaign reminded historian Jane Cook of Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for U.S. president for a political party... (Read More)
The recent news reminded historian Jane Hampton Cook of another shooting of a former president while campaigning: Theodore Roosevelt, on 14 October 1912... (Read More)
Melissa Berry writes about a colonial printer with a strong link to Benjamin Franklin, Edmund March Blunt, who lost his temper and caused a scandal... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega writes about a glory from America’s past: the fabled Route 66, with photos she took along the way... (Read More)
In this article, to celebrate the upcoming Fourth of July holiday, Jane Hampton Cook tells the story of America’s national hymn: “My Country, ’Tis of Thee.”.. (Read More)
In this article, Jane Hampton Cook writes about Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, first U.S. citizen canonized by the Roman Catholic Church... (Read More)
In this article – on the anniversary of the sinking of the “Titanic” – Gena Philibert-Ortega wonders how the disaster impacted her ancestors... (Read More)
In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry details how it took a deal with the real Mafia to get the gangster film “The Godfather” made... (Read More)
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