Remembering 9/11: Looking Back and Looking Forward
Most people can tell you exactly what happened to them on September 11, 2011. They remember the weather, or what they had for lunch, or the look on their neighbor’s face as the two watched smoke...
View ArticleCelebrating Christmas By Crossing the Delaware
What did you do on Christmas morning? Slowly sipped coffee as you rustled through your stockings? Chatted with friends and family at church? Stealthily crossed a frigid river for a surprise attack...
View ArticleEdith Wharton and the Beauties of the Gilded Age
Today, the New York Times wishes a happy upcoming 150th birthday to Edith Wharton, the author of such works as the Age of Innocence and The Buccaneers, which ripped into the culture and practices of...
View ArticleMemorial Day: The Whole World is Watching
When Memorial Day was first celebrated, America was learning to be America again. Over 600,000 soldiers had fallen over four years, fighting for the Union and the Confederacy, and the wounds had not...
View Article“I’m Running This Train!”: Mayor McClellan And The First Subway Ride
Imagine you’re charged with taking a subway for a ride. Now imagine that subway was the first subway ever. A pretty daunting task! Mayor George B. McClellan had the honor of operating the first NYC...
View ArticleJapan Surrenders! The Documents of V-J Day
On September 2, 1945, the Japanese formally surrendered to the Allies, in a “twenty-minute ceremony which ended just as the sun burst through low-hanging clouds as a shining symbol to a ravaged world...
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