At 4 AM on a warm spring day, a stagecoach rumbled from the White House carrying the outgoing president of the United...
Rebekah Harkness spent much of the Standard Oil fortune she inherited on the ballet. Not just going to performances, but sponsoring entire...
John Quincy Adams’ diary must have been irresistible reading for his bad boy brother Charles. John Quincy started his diary at the...
Today in Britain people utter ‘Gordon Bennett’ when someone says something unbelievable, disgusting, surprising or outrageous. They probably don’t know they’re referring...
William Apess was the perfect person to lead the nonviolent Mashpee Revolt of 1833, an uprising against the Massachusetts government. The commonwealth...
Edith Wharton belonged to the old-money, upper-crust New York society to which F. Scott Fitzgerald aspired. Wharton, like the much younger Fitzgerald,...