Harry Grant was the first racecar driver to win the Vanderbilt Cup twice – and the only one who died trying for...
George Washington on first sight impressed Dr. James Thacher as ‘noble and majestic.’ Thacher, then 21, was then trying to enlist as a...
In the early 1930s, a Harvard graduate student named Leroy Anderson almost made the biggest mistake of his life. He had taken...
Anne Bradstreet wasn’t just the first woman to be published in England’s North American colonies. She was the first Englishwoman to publish...
John McTammany loved music and he loved machines, and those two loves led to the creation of a perforated paper player for...
Ernest Thayer wrote one good poem in his lifetime: Casey at the Bat. And then a Broadway actor made it famous by...