At 4 AM on a warm spring day, a stagecoach rumbled from the White House carrying the outgoing president of the United...
One day in the middle of the 1870s, a young glassmaker named Louis Comfort Tiffany visited John La Farge in his studio....
The past is a foreign country. Once upon a time I drove up through Maine and across the border into the wilds...
The name “John Hay” pops up frequently in American history, especially during the second half of the 19th century. John Hay was...
When Isador Lubin walked out of the Federal Trade Commission building in Washington, D.C., on March 16, 1950, he must have been...
With friends like Richard Cutts, James Madison didn’t need enemies. Though Cutts was the rare New Englander who supported Mr. Madison’s War,...