Maintain and mend was the rule in America through the nineteenth century. Wealthy people passed down worn, damaged, or out-of-fashion clothes, furniture, and dishes to…
On April 30, 1871, the Camp Grant massacre took place. Tensions had been rising between the Apache Indians and American settlers. But the commander of…
An 1865 picture of Petersburg shows a delightful hodgepodge of paving and other details of a streetscape in a 19th century small American city. All…
In Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, most of the Confederate dead, known and unknown, moulder in graves marked only by numbered blocks of granite. That doesn’t…
The cinchona tree, whose bark yields quinine for malaria treatment, is native to Peru. However, the Dutch and British exported seeds and trees to their…
“The Richmond Times of October 18, 1864 reported that the Manchester [Virginia] town bell would be rung three times a day to remind people to…