Inside ‘Inside Baseball’: How America’s Pastime Invented a Handy Metaphor
Before it became a cliché, inside baseball was a buzzy new baseball strategy that took big swings—just not of the home-run ...
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RITTNER: Happy Birthday, Emma Willard, Part 3
Last week, we talked about the importance of Emma Willard as an author and her relatively unknown sister, Almira, who also ...
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A Century Ago, Pioneering Astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Showed Us What Stars Are Made Of
The trailblazing Harvard scientist, who documented the dominance of hydrogen and helium in stars, is still inspiring ...
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How 19th-Century Guidebooks Shaped the Way Visitors Saw New York
"Wish You Were Here" at the Grolier Club explores two centuries of NYC tourism using guidebooks, postcards, and other ...
Why You Must Try Preservation Distillery’s 19th-Century-Style Bourbon
Preservation Distillery is reviving 19th-century-style bourbon. These smooth, flavorful whiskeys are outstanding. This is why you have to taste them!
Book About Yellowstone Wins American History Prize
The New York Historical honor goes to Randall K. Wilson, whose “A Place Called Yellowstone” chronicles a landscape “capable ...
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In 19th-Century America, Two ‘Christian Nations’ Took Up Arms
From the nation’s founding to the Civil War, he argues, religion provided a sacred, even transcendent framework for defining America’s identity and charting its course. In shaping both the ...
‘Keep your head': Why Warren Buffett suggests reading a 19th century poem when stocks are falling
"There is a period of transition, because what we're doing is very big," he said. "We're bringing wealth back to America.
This small NJ town was crowned one of the most charming in America
A small town in New Jersey was crowned one of the most charming in the country. Lambertville made HGTV’s list of the 50 most ...
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Women’s History Month: Mary Ann Shadd and Black Education in 19th Century Norristown
Mary Ann Shadd had been teaching for over 10 years in various towns… including Norristown, Pennsylvania.”  At the time, it ...