An interest in maps seems to run in our family; dad was the one who started it all. Over the years I've collected a number of Alabama h...

In February and March 1913 the first large exhibition of modern art in the United States took place at a National Guard armory in New York C...

March 17 is the traditional death date of Saint Patrick and its celebration acknowledges him and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland. Th...

This 1939 photograph by W.B. Phillips shows businesses on the south side of Second Avenue North. Visible are the Strand and Capitol theater...

When Pearl Harbor was bombed in December 1941, Dad was fifteen years old. He tried to sign up after his eighteenth birthday, but he had pret...