Marta Elva, author of American Tumbleweeds, guest posts on the soldaderas, the women who traveled with the armies of the Mexican Revolution. The image of my…
Publishing history crowns Manhattan as the enduring capital of the American publishing world, despite the many changes the internet has wrought. Before the twentieth century,…
Streets paved with stone are generally called “cobblestone” streets. But they’re not always made of cobblestone. “Cobbles” are rounded stones worn smooth by water. “Belgian block”…
A 32-page book written and published by the Arizona Territory Legislature in 1871 begins: “It is customary and generally considered to be to the interest…
My father was deployed in Viet Nam when I was a little kid. I missed Dad more than anything and prayed hard every night that he…
This mourning cockade, with photo of Lincoln mounted in a portable metal frame, would have been worn on a hat, probably by a woman. More…