David Wooster is known more as the person who gave New Haven’s Wooster Square neighborhood its name than for his heroism during...
For most of human history food was something you found or grew and then gladly ate to stay alive. There was little...
John William Sterling was a corporate lawyer during the Gilded Age, a conservative, upper-class businessman, the kind of man the Kinks describe...
Charles Ives never forgot the sights and sounds of the village cornet band marching to the cemetery in Danbury, Conn., on Decoration...
Some people believe that the Rough Riders were almost all cowboys from out West. After all, it had earned the nickname “The...
It’s an interesting photograph: serious-looking men in hats and suits, with a couple of human skulls among them. Taken in 1895, the...